Ross Berry

Voted against tabling SB 263 and supported amended passage on June 5, 2025. It penalized AI-service operators who knowingly directed communications intended to encourage children to imminently engage in specified harmful acts. Civil enforcement belonged solely to the attorney general, with 90 days to cure violations and minimum damages of $1,000. An adopted amendment authorized lease-end evictions after at least six months of tenancy, with 60 days' notice. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 179–193); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 202–168).

June 5, 2025Supports AI Regulation

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Voted to kill HB 630, which restricted spreading deepfake images or video of candidates before an election. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 201–169).

March 20, 2025Opposes AI Regulation

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Cosponsored HB 1596 in 2024 to require disclosures on deceptive AI-generated election media. The enacted law barred knowing or reasonably knowable election deepfakes within 90 days unless a conspicuous AI disclosure was included, provided civil relief and exempted specified news, platform, unwitting-sharing and satire uses. The later bill became law on August 2, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports AI Regulation

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Voted to override Governor Ayotte's veto of HB 1565 on August 19, 2026. The final bill created criminal and civil liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports, required an owner's project manager when applying for school building aid for projects of at least $1.5 million, and established provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility after 90 days with a $1 appropriation and authority to request additional funding. The override failed 168–140, below the required two-thirds vote.

August 19, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of SB 468, allowing therapeutic-cannabis alternative treatment centers to request greenhouse cultivation authorization, with local zoning and security rules, community input, and plans and annual reports on energy costs and patient prices. The override passed 257–44.

August 19, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted Yea on SB 567 amendment 1965h, requiring a clinical examination before dental radiographic screening and protecting dentists who treated patients declining X-rays after a signed liability waiver. It also prohibited discipline for individualized variations from clinical guidelines. The amendment passed 158–143; he voted against tabling, which failed 134–166, and Yea on passage, which passed 167–133.

May 14, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for SB 504 amendment 1951h on May 14, 2026; it passed 188–153. It authorized experimental treatment centers with physician recommendations, written consent and scientific review, and expanded right-to-try access to severe illnesses. The mixed bill also changed pharmacy practice and vaccine-administration rules. He supported passage, which passed 197–145.

May 14, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to kill SB 545 on April 23, 2026; the motion passed 182–153. The bill required DHHS, subject to federal approval, to make Medicare Part D low-income prescription subsidies available to residents eligible for the Medicare Savings Program.

April 23, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to defeat SB 543, establishing provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility and reimbursable state payments pending application decisions, a $1 initial appropriation and two program-administration positions. The House rejected it 182–154.

April 23, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to defeat HCR 12, a nonbinding call for New Hampshire's congressional delegation to support Medicare for All, including comprehensive coverage without deductibles and enrollment of Medicaid recipients. The House rejected it 180–151.

March 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to defeat HB 1760, repealing Medicaid pharmacy copayment and Granite Advantage and CHIP premium directives and appropriating the amount necessary to replace lost funding. The House rejected it 184–153.

March 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to pass HB 1735 with amendment 0850h, expanding the right to try law to chronic, debilitating illnesses and removing its separate eligible-patient definition, including its bar on direct manufacturer compensation to physicians. The House passed it 181–151.

March 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 1596, a proposal to raise the cigarette and little cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, provide an additional $18 million annual appropriation to the university system, and repeal premiums for children's health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The motion passed 200–157.

February 12, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for amended SB 134, which aligned Granite Advantage work requirements with federal law, required documentary proof and at least quarterly verification, and restricted additional optional exemptions without legislative oversight approval. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 204–150). On January 8, 2026, voted for SB 134’s majority amendment implementing federally authorized community-engagement and work conditions for Granite Advantage (349–5; passed).

January 8, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 155 in 2025 to set the business enterprise tax rate at 0.50 percent for taxable periods ending on or after December 31, 2026. Voted for HB 155's January 8, 2026 version cutting the business enterprise tax rate from 0.55 to 0.50 percent. Also voted for its June 4 conference report. That version replaced the fixed cut with conditional 0.05 percentage-point cuts per $100 million certified business-tax surplus. Fiscal safeguards applied, with a 0.25 percent rate floor. It raised filing thresholds from $250,000 to $400,000 and provided $2.5 million for nursing-facility rates. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 189–165); June 4, 2026, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 195–157). The governor signed the conference version on July 10, 2026.

January 8, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for SB 34 as amended on January 7, 2026; the House passed it 186–155. The proposal required written parental consent for each new diagnostic billing code under Medicaid to Schools and school medical or dental treatment. It also required annual legislative reports and termination of the program statewide or locally if the relevant government or school adopted a policy contrary to parental control of children's medical services.

January 7, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 349's authorization of three specified ophthalmic laser procedures by certified optometrists after training, clinical proficiency and informed consent. On January 7, 2026, he opposed postponement, which failed 133–205, and tabling, which failed 94–242. He supported passage, which passed 193–143. On April 9, he supported overriding the veto; the 145–206 vote failed and the veto stood.

January 7, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 360 as amended on January 7, 2026; the House passed it 183–155. The House proposal barred school physicians, nurses and other health-care providers employed or contracted by a school district from performing surgery or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs on school grounds.

January 7, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2026–2027 budget policy package. It required Medicaid prescription copays and household-size premiums, with eligibility income thresholds and hardship protections. The charges remained subject to federal law and required federal approvals. It directed a federal waiver request for Medicaid-expansion work requirements. It banned defined diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public entities and schools, including implicit-bias training and race-based hiring preferences. It also prohibited related contract provisions and required public-school funding halts for violations. It repealed annual vehicle safety inspections. It appropriated $10 million plus available federal matching funds for staffed community-residence room and board. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 185–175); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 184–183). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2’s majority budget-policy amendment 1488h (200–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1529h permitting specified biological-sex classifications and exempting membership or direct-pay intermediate-care and rehabilitation facilities from specified rules, with a separate patient bill of rights (203–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1526h restricting local health regulations to nuisance prevention and removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccine requirements by rule (195–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1560h asserting a federal-commerce exemption for NH-only firearms, allowing adults to carry specified impact weapons and imposing liability for malicious false child-abuse reports or knowing failure to report (203–167; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 2 amendment 1555h requiring twice-yearly legislative reports on Title IV-E funds and compliance with federal program intent (104–268; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing HB 2’s local school tax cap (206–165; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against about $1.84 million per year for family planning, combining state and federal funds (174–196; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against $7 million per year for tourism and about $2.33 million in FY 2027 for welcome centers (198–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, consolidating commercial and land-use court dockets and increasing superior-court associate justices to 24 (183–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against seeking federal approval for Medicaid-based school-meal direct certification, consent-based enrollment and temporary aid-calculation changes (181–182; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before April passage (193–170; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before its final conference vote (185–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a broad alternative package reducing EFA appropriations, removing Medicaid copays/premiums and DEI prohibitions, preserving oversight bodies and restoring selected service funding (166–204; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Office of the Child Advocate with $1,075,549 in FY 2026 and $1,114,238 in FY 2027 (177–190; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against restoring arts appropriations and positions proposed for abolition (177–185; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing the new group III defined-contribution retirement plan (183–177; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and providing fiscal-capacity school aid of up to $1,500 per pupil with a $1 million–$2 million equalized-valuation range (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and appropriating $6.5 million in FY 2026 and $25.5 million in FY 2027 to the university system (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a 35 percent video-lottery tax (173–191; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing expiration of leases longer than six months as an eviction ground (159–205; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving local municipal approval of keno (183–181; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against requiring the Office of Health Equity and vendors to treat everyone with equal dignity and comply with the civil-rights act (116–248; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified opioid-fund appropriations and transfers, repeal of liquor contributions and termination of opioid-funded agreements (169–195; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified environmental and agricultural fee increases, reducing EFA appropriations and revising vehicle fees (165–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Human Rights Commission and positions with state and federal appropriations (161–203; failed).

April 10, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 377 and its final version. It barred new puberty-blocker and hormone treatments for minors while allowing treatments begun before January 1, 2026 to continue. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 197–167); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 202–161). On March 27, 2025, voted against HB 377’s amendment preserving active pre-effective-date hormone or puberty-blocker prescriptions for patients under 18 (168–203; failed).

March 27, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for amended HB 548 on March 27, 2025. It exempted membership-based and direct-pay health facilities from specified bed-capacity restrictions and a licensing moratorium. Nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities were excluded. The bill also established patient-rights provisions and directed a health-department study. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–157).

March 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 712 and its final version. It restricted gender-related chest surgery for minors, with medical and reconstructive exceptions, and added abortion-statistics reporting. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–165); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 191–163).

March 27, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 53, which let medical cannabis patients and caregivers grow cannabis at home. House roll calls: Feb. 20, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 328–42).

February 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 1280 on March 28, 2024, codifying physicians' informed-consent duties and patient rights to treatment information, refusal of treatment, privacy, medical records, second opinions, and continuity of care. It preserved emergency treatment without prior consent when the patient lacked decision capacity and no surrogate was available. The bill passed 189–181.

March 28, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HB 94, ending Medicaid coverage for childhood circumcision except for medical necessity. A separate vision screening amendment failed before the vote. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 184–183). Voted to table HB 1683 on March 21, 2024, passing 188–187. On March 28 he voted to remove it from the table, passing 189–188, and against killing it, which failed 185–188. He supported reconsideration, passing 188–186, and passage of the amended bill, which failed 184–191. The proposal restricted Medicaid coverage of circumcision to specified medical indications, with an additional medical-necessity exception for minors.

March 21, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for amended HB 1231, which allowed registered medical-cannabis patients and caregivers age 21 or older without felony convictions to grow three mature plants, three immature plants, and twelve seedlings, with site-registration and safety rules. House roll calls: March 14, 2024, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 294–66).

March 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 23, a resolution calling on the congressional delegation to pursue national universal health insurance through a single-payer system. The motion passed 192–179.

March 14, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1660's exclusion of gender-reassignment surgery for people under 18 from state Medicaid coverage; the House passed it 193–169. He also opposed tabling, which failed 174–188.

March 7, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against removing SB 149 from the table and against passage of the amended bill. The House version required temporary nurse agencies to register with the licensing office and restricted double-booking followed by cancellation or rebidding, recruitment on facility premises, virus-based surcharges outside declared public-health emergencies and placement of professionals with suspended licenses. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, motion to remove from the table: voted no (passed 190–188). Jun. 8, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 191–187).

June 8, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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On May 18, 2023, moved to table SB 263, a permanent Granite Advantage Medicaid renewal; the motion failed 182–192. Voted yes on 27 failed amendments covering renewal limits, work and drug-testing conditions, federally constrained copays, patient cost estimates, and regulated adult cannabis legalization. Voted no on House passage (193–166; passed and referred to Finance). On January 4, 2024, voted yes to kill the retained permanent-renewal bill (191–183; passed). The separate 2023 budget law renewed Granite Advantage through 2030. His May 18 yes votes on failed amendments were: 1910: 184–192; 1864: 181–199; 1749: 186–193; 1869: 184–195; 1841: 175–199; 1890: 175–194; 1750: 169–192; 1860: 175–194; 1748: 173–195. Additional failed amendment votes were: 1881: 176–193; 1747: 173–194; 1832: 168–193; 1857: 170–191; 1859: 169–196; 1867: 174–190; 1868: 169–190; 1870: 166–194; 1871: 162–191. The remaining failed amendment votes were: 1872: 166–191; 1873: 164–183; 1897: 164–190; 1901: 167–193; 1909: 163–191; 1922: 160–187; 1923: 156–198; 1929: 166–190; 1789: 118–241.

May 18, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted yes on June 8, 2023 to accept HB 2's final 2024–2025 budget policy package (326–53). It accelerated interest and dividends tax repeal to January 1, 2025. It raised base state education aid to $4,100 and additional aid for nonvirtual charter schools to $4,900. Childcare scholarship eligibility rose to 85 percent of state median income. It extended Granite Advantage through 2030. It also funded 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage with a $600,000 appropriation. On April 6, 2023, voted for HB 2 amendment 1336h including $30 million in affordable housing, $4,000 base school aid, $5,000 additional nonvirtual-charter aid, Medicaid provider-rate increases and limits on gubernatorial emergency renewals (326–63; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s acceleration of interest-and-dividends-tax repeal to 2025 (190–199; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s changes to community-college employees’ retirement-system status (199–187; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against redirecting 32.5 percent of business-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund and shifting specified education appropriations from the general fund (191–197; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against $3 million per year to reduce resident tuition at UNH, Plymouth State and Keene State (128–259; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted for raising initial EFA income eligibility to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines (167–222; failed).

April 6, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for HR 7, which called on the federal government to preserve Medicare and Social Security without benefit cuts. The resolution passed. House roll calls: Feb. 23, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 333–12).

February 23, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 338, which added insulin assistance for people with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes to the New Hampshire Rx Advantage Program and capped a 30-day supply at $30. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 283–61).

February 23, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against amended HB 565, which extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months. The House passed it. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 184–179).

February 22, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against SB 450, which established a dedicated fund for the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, revised its manufacturer and pharmacy-benefit-manager assessments and appeals, expanded alternate members, and penalized knowing misuse or unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Passage passed 173–161 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against passing SB 397 as amended, which joined the interstate professional counseling compact and exempted child placements with a parent from the existing placement compact when a court found a substantial parent-child relationship and the child's best interests. Passage passed 202–132 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against the HB 1661 conference report, which set regional career and technical education agreements, appropriated $9.35 million for preliminary garage work and relocating the Department of Justice, removed Medicaid premiums for employed adults with disabilities and older adults with disabilities, funded hospital birthing services, and revised housing-development and land-use approval rules. The report passed. Earlier, he voted against an amendment appropriating $35 million for the garage project. On March 31, 2022, he opposed the amendment; the vote was 271–65 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 244–99 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against HB 103's final conference report establishing dental coverage for Medicaid recipients age 21 and older. It covered preventive, restorative and surgical care, limited removable prosthodontic coverage to specified waiver and nursing-facility populations, capped other benefits at $1,500 annually, and required federally allowed cost sharing above 100 percent of the poverty level while exempting preventive and diagnostic services. On January 6, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 225–127 and the motion passed. On March 16, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 237–100 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 246–105 and the motion passed.

January 6, 2022Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against SB 162’s amended health-and-human-services package, which removed the requirement to designate a single therapeutic-cannabis center, allowed registry certifications lasting up to three years, revised health-program funds and child-protection investigations, and required assessments and court review for children placed in qualified residential treatment programs. The House passed the bill 240–136 on June 3, 2021.

June 3, 2021Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for the state operating budgets for fiscal years 2022–2023 and 2026–2027, including both final compromise versions. House roll calls: 2021 HB 1: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 205–178); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 208–172). 2025 HB 1: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–183); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 185–180). On April 7, 2021, voted for the majority FY 2022–23 operating-budget amendment (200–178; passed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $1,235,532 in FY 2022 for family-planning contracts (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $220,000 per year for youth tobacco prevention and cessation (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against additional child-care, homeless-youth outreach and home-visiting appropriations (174–207; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $2.92 million in state funds plus federal matching funds for FY 2023 adult Medicaid dental coverage (184–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing a DHHS staffing reduction and funding 22 existing child-protective-service positions (175–208; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 1’s majority FY 2026–27 operating-budget amendment (197–178; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for the first vote on HB 1’s budget conference report (182–183; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for reconsidering the initial rejection of HB 1’s budget conference report (185–180; passed).

April 7, 2021Opposes Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against killing HB 420, which exempted cash of $200 or less and vehicles valued at $1,500 or less from drug forfeiture, and shifted administration of remaining forfeiture funds to DHHS for permitted enforcement reimbursements and drug treatment, mental-health treatment, rehabilitation, prevention and education. The House killed the bill 181–173 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted against tabling or killing HB 233, a bill requiring care for infants born alive. The Senate replaced it with a study committee in January 2022, and the House concurred in March 2022. House roll calls: Feb. 24, 2021, motion to table: voted no (failed 45–184); motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 46–186). On February 24, 2021, also voted to make HB 233 the next order of business. The special-order motion passed 180–159.

February 24, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Joined EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin at a St. Anselm College roundtable and praised the EPA for moving quickly on New Hampshire's bid to end vehicle emissions inspections.

September 30, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted against killing SB 625, which failed 146–150. He voted Yea on amendment 1955h removing Hepatitis B from required childhood immunizations, passed 157–138, and 1956h terminating DHHS refugee-resettlement contracts and prohibiting state agencies from accepting or spending money from any source for refugee resettlement, passed 155–140. He voted Yea on the amended bill, passed 156–139; it also created a homicide-family information study committee.

May 14, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass HB 1219 with amendment 1094h, limiting vaccination requirements for children and adults living in foster homes to the types, dose quantities and exemptions in the state's childhood immunization law. The House passed it 180–145.

March 11, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1635 on March 5, 2026; the House passed it 183–167. The proposal changed suicide-prevention training for school faculty and staff from at least two hours annually to training within 30 days of hiring and every two years thereafter, removing the minimum-hours requirement.

March 5, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against tabling HR 35 and for adopting it as amended on March 5, 2026. The House rejected tabling 153–166 and adopted the resolution 169–152. The nonbinding resolution opposed geoengineering and weather modification involving intentional polluting emissions and recommended notification to federal agencies.

March 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 1602's producer-funded recycling programs for portable and medium-format batteries. The proposal barred consumer fees at purchase or collection and required reimbursement of state administrative costs. On February 19, 2026, he supported tabling, which failed 84–254, and opposed passage, which passed 264–72. On March 26, he supported interim study, which failed 128–226, and opposed passage, which passed 244–112.

February 19, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1811, which repealed the state's required childhood vaccinations. House roll calls: Feb. 19, 2026, passage: voted yes (failed 155–192).

February 19, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 1810 on February 12, 2026; the House adopted the motion 177–156. The proposal charged a $4 fee per ton or equivalent unit of bulk road salt and brine, required bulk sellers to obtain five-year $200 certifications, and funded grants for certified winter-maintenance practices through a nonlapsing mitigation fund.

February 12, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1719, which removed hepatitis B from the state's required childhood vaccines. House roll calls: Feb. 12, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 186–168).

February 12, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amended HB 392, which dissolved the Office of Health Access and prohibited funding projects labeled health equity or environmental justice while preserving specified language, disability, rural-access, and federally required services elsewhere in the health department. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–159). On January 8, 2026, voted for HB 392’s amendment dissolving the Office of Health Access and ending environmental-justice funding while preserving federal-compliance and rural-access functions elsewhere in DHHS (186–159; passed).

January 8, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 97 on January 7, 2026; the House adopted the motion 175–156. The introduced proposal appropriated $15 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for eligible wastewater projects approved by June 2026.

January 7, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored HB 1748 in 2026 to establish a public energy-efficiency and resource-development authority to coordinate efficiency assistance and investment and promote nuclear generation, education and related industries. The House referred it for interim study on February 19, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 396's limited in-state sales of uninspected meat from cattle, swine, sheep and goats on January 7, 2026. Sanitary handling, labeling and monthly animal limits applied; the House passed it 214–119. On August 19, he supported the first veto override, which failed 204–116, and reconsideration, which passed 187–120. He supported the second override, which failed 202–107 to reach two thirds; the veto stood.

January 7, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against agreeing to Senate changes to HB 342 on June 12, 2025. It exempted qualifying construction from lot-size and coverage variances when it matched zoning and the density of 51% of nearby properties. The comparison covered properties within 1,000 feet built before the section’s effective date. Zoning administrators verified conformity; subdivisions required planning-board approval. It also authorized local governing bodies to adopt clean-energy financing districts after hearings, subject to a 50-voter petition for town-meeting review. House roll calls: June 12, 2025, agreement with Senate changes: voted no (failed 154–195).

June 12, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill SB 272 on May 22, 2025. It authorized local revolving funds for electric-vehicle charging stations and penalties for occupying charging spaces without charging. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 195–163).

May 22, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill SB 228 on May 1, 2025. It expanded net-metering arrangements and raised the annual community-solar designation cap from 6 to 18 megawatts. It raised the threshold for specified metering and billing rules from 100 to 500 kilowatts. It added nonprofit educational institutions and public housing authorities as eligible municipal hosts. House roll calls: May 1, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 190–151).

May 1, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2026–2027 budget policy package. It required Medicaid prescription copays and household-size premiums, with eligibility income thresholds and hardship protections. The charges remained subject to federal law and required federal approvals. It directed a federal waiver request for Medicaid-expansion work requirements. It banned defined diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public entities and schools, including implicit-bias training and race-based hiring preferences. It also prohibited related contract provisions and required public-school funding halts for violations. It repealed annual vehicle safety inspections. It appropriated $10 million plus available federal matching funds for staffed community-residence room and board. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 185–175); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 184–183). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2’s majority budget-policy amendment 1488h (200–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1529h permitting specified biological-sex classifications and exempting membership or direct-pay intermediate-care and rehabilitation facilities from specified rules, with a separate patient bill of rights (203–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1526h restricting local health regulations to nuisance prevention and removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccine requirements by rule (195–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1560h asserting a federal-commerce exemption for NH-only firearms, allowing adults to carry specified impact weapons and imposing liability for malicious false child-abuse reports or knowing failure to report (203–167; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 2 amendment 1555h requiring twice-yearly legislative reports on Title IV-E funds and compliance with federal program intent (104–268; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing HB 2’s local school tax cap (206–165; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against about $1.84 million per year for family planning, combining state and federal funds (174–196; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against $7 million per year for tourism and about $2.33 million in FY 2027 for welcome centers (198–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, consolidating commercial and land-use court dockets and increasing superior-court associate justices to 24 (183–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against seeking federal approval for Medicaid-based school-meal direct certification, consent-based enrollment and temporary aid-calculation changes (181–182; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before April passage (193–170; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before its final conference vote (185–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a broad alternative package reducing EFA appropriations, removing Medicaid copays/premiums and DEI prohibitions, preserving oversight bodies and restoring selected service funding (166–204; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Office of the Child Advocate with $1,075,549 in FY 2026 and $1,114,238 in FY 2027 (177–190; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against restoring arts appropriations and positions proposed for abolition (177–185; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing the new group III defined-contribution retirement plan (183–177; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and providing fiscal-capacity school aid of up to $1,500 per pupil with a $1 million–$2 million equalized-valuation range (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and appropriating $6.5 million in FY 2026 and $25.5 million in FY 2027 to the university system (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a 35 percent video-lottery tax (173–191; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing expiration of leases longer than six months as an eviction ground (159–205; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving local municipal approval of keno (183–181; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against requiring the Office of Health Equity and vendors to treat everyone with equal dignity and comply with the civil-rights act (116–248; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified opioid-fund appropriations and transfers, repeal of liquor contributions and termination of opioid-funded agreements (169–195; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified environmental and agricultural fee increases, reducing EFA appropriations and revising vehicle fees (165–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Human Rights Commission and positions with state and federal appropriations (161–203; failed).

April 10, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 358, dropping the required government form for religious vaccine exemptions. He also voted to override its veto, which failed. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 206–169); June 12, 2025, agreeing to Senate changes: voted yes (passed 194–153); Dec. 17, 2025, veto override: voted yes (failed 176–175).

March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 679 on March 27, 2025. It barred required childhood vaccines without clinical-trial evidence of disease-transmission prevention. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 204–165).

March 27, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to table HB 96 on March 26, 2025. The bill required the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code or an equivalent code with equal or greater energy savings. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 199–135).

March 26, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against killing HB 226 on March 26, 2025. The bill authorized drug checking through registered harm-reduction organizations and protected their staff during authorized activities. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 140–196).

March 26, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for an HR 16 amendment supporting medical choice and workplace protections for health workers. It supported reintegration of workers dismissed for declining COVID-19 vaccination. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, amendment: voted yes (passed 202–166).

March 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HCR 4, a resolution rejecting all offshore wind projects off the New Hampshire coast and in the Gulf of Maine. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 195–149). The December 17, 2025 House journal recorded that the Senate did not admit the resolution under Senate Rule 3–26.

March 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 219 as amended. It eliminated the solar renewable-energy category and reduced thermal renewable-energy requirements and compliance payments. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 189–173). On January 7, 2026, supported the further-amended bill setting a July 1, 2027 effective date; passage passed 175–152.

March 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 649, which ended required safety and emissions inspections for passenger vehicles. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 212–143).

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to indefinitely postpone HB 724, expanding inspections of lead hazards in apartment buildings. It lowered the childhood blood lead action threshold from 5 to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter. It also required contractor lead safety license numbers on building permit applications. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to postpone indefinitely: voted yes (passed 202–167).

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 751, requiring licenses for outpatient substance use treatment facilities and adding a specialist to investigate treatment complaints. It exempted recovery coaching, twelve-step groups and impaired driver care programs. The House version appropriated $211,000 for a compliance officer. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage as amended: voted no (passed 216–152).

March 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 682, removing the state’s offshore wind industry office, workforce development committee and port and infrastructure commission. It moved the grid modernization and hydrogen councils to the energy innovation office. House roll calls: February 20, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 206–163).

February 20, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 422, raising maximum shoreland and water pollution penalties from $5,000 to $15,000. House roll calls: February 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 196–175).

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 334, adding watershed and natural-resource protection to the state’s development plan. It covered drinking-water sources, forests, wetlands, coastal marshes and wildlife habitats. House roll calls: February 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 199–171).

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HCR 9 urging the United States to reject compliance with the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and requesting cooperation from other states. The House passed it February 13, 2025, 204–163. A December 17, 2025 House journal message recorded the Senate’s refusal to admit the resolution.

February 13, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 189, defining clean energy as low greenhouse gas sources, including nuclear power and renewables. It added clean energy and fuel diversity to the state’s ten-year energy strategy. Voted against an alternative definition excluding energy sources that emit pollutants or greenhouse gases during use. House roll calls: February 6, 2025, floor amendment: voted no (failed 150–204); February 6, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 206–148).

February 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to indefinitely postpone HB 83, raising the legal age for sports betting from 18 to 21. House roll calls: February 6, 2025, motion to postpone indefinitely: voted yes (passed 215–140).

February 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to table HB 526, establishing a state division to assess climate risks, plan adaptation and manage related grants. House roll calls: February 6, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 207–146).

February 6, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for SB 63's narrowing of municipal health officers' ordinance authority to nuisances or similar public-health threats. Passage failed 181–182 on May 2, 2024. On May 9, he supported removing it from the table, which passed 185–180, and passage, which passed 186–180.

May 2, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to reject SB 496's climate and health protection program for tracking health threats, planning responses, educating residents, and issuing alerts. The program depended on sufficient non-state funding and expressly prohibited general-fund appropriations. The House rejected it 186–182.

May 2, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to table HB 1649, which prohibited sales of specified consumer products with intentionally added PFAS, including food packaging, children’s products, cosmetics, carpets, and upholstered furniture. House roll calls: April 11, 2024, motion to table: voted yes (failed 165–215). On April 11, 2024, voted for HB 1649 amendment 1459h narrowing food packaging to packages substantially made from plant-derived materials (165–216; failed).

April 11, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against amendment 1300h to HB 1059, which applied the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code to commercial buildings while retaining the 2018 code for residential buildings. The amendment failed 179–192.

March 28, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on March 21, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 30, a resolution asking the Education Department to consider preparing and distributing climate-change curricula, including human causes, local impacts and possible solutions. The motion passed 191–183.

March 21, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 368, banning smoking and e-cigarettes in cars with a passenger younger than 16. It imposed a $100 fine, enforced only after a stop for another traffic violation. House roll calls: February 20, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 213–157). Voted on March 14, 2024 to kill HB 1244's proposed prohibition on smoking tobacco or e-cigarettes in a vehicle with a passenger under 16. The $100 fine was enforceable only after a stop for another suspected motor-vehicle violation. The motion passed 188–171.

March 14, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against tabling HB 221, then supported passage on March 20, 2025. The bill authorized the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider tests for energy-efficiency spending funded by utility charges. Changes were barred before program year 2027. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 151–193); March 20, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 195–151). Voted for amended HB 1036 on March 7, 2024. It authorized the Public Utilities Commission to revise energy-efficiency program tests through adjudication for periods beginning in 2027. Orders were required at least 12 months before each period. Existing tests remained through 2026. The House passed it 184–169. On August 19, 2026, voted to override the veto of HB 221. Its later replacement version extended utility long-term power agreement deadlines and allowed existing generation sources. It raised procurement limits for advanced nuclear reactors and provided 20-year net-metering eligibility for specified low-income community-solar and municipal projects. It raised the single-net-meter threshold from 100 to 250 kilowatts. The override failed 152–167.

March 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 332, allowing towns to form village districts for watershed protection and restoration. House roll calls: February 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 196–171). Voted on March 7, 2024 against HB 1250, a proposal authorizing village districts to protect and remediate surface-water quality. Passage failed on a 182–182 tie; he then opposed tabling, which failed 182–183, voted to kill the bill, which passed 184–180, and opposed reconsideration, which failed 179–187.

March 7, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on March 7, 2024 to kill CACR 14, a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a clean and healthful environment and adequate remedies to protect natural resources against unreasonable depletion and degradation. The motion passed 197–168.

March 7, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Spoke in favor and voted Yea on March 7, 2024 on HB 1213 as amended to remove child-care agencies' requirements to demonstrate immunization or an exemption before enrollment, keep immunization records and submit annual immunization reports. School requirements remained. The House passed it 189–173.

March 7, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on February 22, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1423, a proposal to identify and map mature and old-growth forests under public management for potential carbon storage, flood and drought mitigation, water quality and biodiversity protection. The motion passed 228–141.

February 22, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on February 22, 2024 against HB 1472, a proposal that redirected $3 million in greenhouse-gas auction proceeds otherwise rebated to electric ratepayers to a two-year point-of-sale electric-vehicle rebate pilot. Passage failed 187–192. He also opposed tabling and reconsideration motions, which failed 189–191 and 187–192.

February 22, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against SB 151 adding mental health education to adequate education standards and directing model curriculum and rulemaking, with existing parental curriculum objection rights expressly preserved. Passage failed 183–186; he also opposed reconsideration, which failed 183–187.

January 3, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored HB 1213 in 2024 to remove immunization requirements for private schools and childcare agencies while retaining public-school requirements. The House-passed replacement removed immunization admission, recordkeeping and annual-report requirements for childcare agencies, retaining school requirements. The Senate referred it for interim study on May 2, 2024.

January 3, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against amended HB 369 establishing a farm energy systems and infrastructure advisory program with UNH Cooperative Extension and appropriating $100,000 for a field specialist. Passage failed 186–187.

January 3, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against amended HB 470, which expanded legal drug checking equipment beyond fentanyl and xylazine tests and protected possession of up to 10 milligrams of controlled substances for analysis and authorized harm reduction activities. The House passed the amended bill 212–161.

January 3, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on February 1, 2024 against HB 1068, a proposal that required school and child-care health forms to include existing blood-lead testing results for young children or document notice to parents about testing requirements and lead-poisoning education. The passage motion failed 189–190. Voted against overriding the veto of HB 342, which required school-entry and child-care health forms to include an existing blood-lead test result for covered young children unless exempt. When a result was missing, schools and agencies had to notify parents of existing testing requirements and distribute lead-poisoning information. Override failed 184–171. House roll calls: Oct. 26, 2023, veto override: voted no (failed 184–171).

October 26, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amendment 2167h to SB 61, which proposed site-specific landfill setbacks from perennial surface waters, consideration of additional protective design measures, a $150,000 assessment appropriation and a hold on new landfill permit approvals pending new rules. The amendment failed 152–226. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, adopt floor amendment: voted yes (failed 152–226).

June 8, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 534, which proposed a nonlapsing fund to assist residents with repair, replacement and treatment of private drinking-water wells after natural disasters, with assistance based on ability to pay and $2.5 million appropriations in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The motion failed 191–196. House roll calls: Apr. 6, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 191–196).

April 6, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against killing HB 575, which proposed barring the state and its political subdivisions from purchasing, promoting or distributing vaccines and pharmaceutical products without voluntary human clinical trials. The motion to kill passed 192–186. House roll calls: Mar. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted no (passed 192–186).

March 23, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against tabling HB 442; the motion failed 131–245. Then voted for amendment 0709h, adopted 271–105, and for the amended bill, passed 276–100. The House version created a capped recreational scuba-diving lobster license, required licensed lobstermen to log trap locations and attempt retrieval of detached traps, and set rules for reporting and handling abandoned gear. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (failed 131–245). Mar. 22, 2023, amendment 0709h: voted yes (passed 271–105). Mar. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 276–100).

March 22, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 523, which raised the net-metering limit for renewable generators from one to five megawatts. House roll calls: March 16, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 182–189).

March 16, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 524, which increased the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowance-revenue threshold retained for energy efficiency from $1 to $3 before ratepayer rebates. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 181–186).

March 16, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 208, which set state greenhouse gas reduction goals and a climate action plan. House roll calls: March 16, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 183–187).

March 16, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 92, which required Department of Environmental Services rules adopting California vehicle-emissions standards under Section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act. The House rejected it; the proposed study-commission replacement had failed. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 40–331). On March 9, 2023, voted against replacing HB 92’s emissions-standard adoption requirement with a study commission on vehicle emissions and electric vehicles (171–194; failed).

March 9, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HCR 5, which urged the governor and attorney general to join legal actions against fossil-fuel companies over climate-related harm and alleged disinformation. The motion to kill the resolution passed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–158).

March 9, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 226, which allowed towns to regulate point-of-sale distribution of single-use packaging and its disposal in municipal landfills and transfer stations. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 257–90).

February 23, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for the House version of HB 252, which exempted agricultural activities, including agritourism, from municipal quiet-hours ordinances. The bill passed the House. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 266–84).

February 22, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 574, which restored WIC farmers’ market nutrition benefits for locally grown produce at participating markets and roadside stands and appropriated $300,000. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (failed 180–184).

February 22, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 418, which ended Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative customer rebates and directed auction proceeds to energy-efficiency programs, including free small efficiency measures for residents. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 183–185).

February 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against HB 234, which removed utilities’ renewable-energy credits for net-metered generation without issued renewable certificates. The bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 182–182). Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 170–176). Feb. 23, 2023, reconsideration: voted no (passed 178–169). Feb. 23, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 177–167).

February 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored HB 224 in 2025 to rebate surplus renewable-energy-fund receipts to retail electric ratepayers per kilowatt-hour. On March 6, voted for its House version reserving administration, energy-innovation and incentive funds before rebates (200–162; passed). The House sent the bill to interim study on January 7, 2026. Cosponsored HB 1542 in 2026 to reduce all renewable-portfolio-standard alternative compliance payment rates to zero. Voted against tabling HB 1542 and for its passage as amended on February 12, 2026; the House rejected tabling 160–188 and passed the bill 189–157. The February version rebated remaining renewable-portfolio-standard alternative compliance payments to ratepayers. On March 26, he voted for a revised version directing remaining funds to the general fund through June 30, 2026 and, beginning July 1, 2027, rebating funds above administrative costs and funding for offshore wind energy innovation; the House passed that version 189–162. The Senate later replaced the payment changes with a study of the renewable portfolio standard, resource classes and fund. The House rejected the Senate version by a 189–148 division vote on May 21; no Berry cast was inferred from that vote. Voted for HB 246, which redirected remaining Renewable Energy Fund money after administration expenses to ratepayer reductions from July 2023 through June 2025. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (failed 179–186).

February 14, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored SB 40 in 2023 to allow eligible small hydroelectric generators sharing grid connections to participate separately in net metering using approved meter-reading and billing procedures. The later bill became law on June 30, 2023.

January 5, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health

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Prime-sponsored HB 1620 extending the Merrimack River's community-river designation northward to the Manchester-Hooksett line while preserving specified water-use and existing consent-decree protections. The House sent it to interim study, and an October 27, 2022 published report recorded that the committee did not recommend it.

October 27, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to override the veto of HB 1454, which required new-landfill setbacks from perennial rivers, lakes, and coastal waters based on five years of groundwater travel or at least 200 feet. It allowed limited credits for additional safeguards and exempted expansion of existing landfills. The House veto override passed 256–65 on September 15, 2022.

September 15, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted Nay on amended SB 407 on April 21, 2022 (212–117), then Yea on the further-amended bill on May 4 (295–28). The May version combined 12 months of continuous postpartum Medicaid coverage and a $200,000 appropriation with required medical, religious, and conscience vaccine exemptions upon written request for employees and postsecondary students at publicly funded employers and institutions; reasonable accommodations remained available.

April 21, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass SB 376 as amended, pairing a study of a mental-health incident review board with $1.2 million for police crisis-intervention training and related staffing and attendance costs. Passage passed 206–107 on April 21, 2022.

April 21, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against bringing HB 1506 back from the table. It created a clean-energy financing fund to attract public, private and charitable capital for low-emission projects, directed 40% of investment to vulnerable communities, and required prevailing wages on fund-financed construction portions of projects costing more than $100,000. The motion failed 147–184 on April 21, 2022. Voted to kill HB 630, which established a state green bank for clean-energy financing and dedicated at least 40 percent of investments to financially vulnerable customers and communities. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, motion to table: voted no (failed 184–186). Feb. 14, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 187–182).

April 21, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HR 17, a nonbinding House resolution opposing federal or state carbon taxes on fuels for electricity and transportation. House roll calls: March 31, 2022, passage: voted yes (passed 178–159).

March 31, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amended HB 1210, which required public and private employers and publicly funded postsecondary institutions to accept written medical, religious, or conscience exemption requests from vaccine requirements. House roll calls: March 17, 2022, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 181–155).

March 17, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 357 on March 27, 2025, removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccination requirements by rule (195–174; passed). The bill retained seven statutory diseases and set a June 30, 2026 expiration for chickenpox, hepatitis B and Hib requirements. On May 1, voted for SB 60’s floor amendment carrying the same rulemaking repeal and statutory-disease protections (176–165; passed). Voted for amended HB 1379, which specified required childhood vaccines in statute, continued hepatitis B and Hib requirements through June 2026, and allowed one additional requirement per disease for up to 20 months with three-fifths approval of the legislative health oversight committee. Longer continuation required legislation. Passage passed 169–164 on March 16, 2022.

March 16, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amended HB 1495, which barred state and local governments from requiring businesses to demand vaccination or vaccination or immunity records from customers or employees. It excepted statutory childhood immunizations and state certification of medical facilities or providers subject to valid federal Medicare or Medicaid vaccination requirements. Passage passed 179–153 on March 16, 2022.

March 16, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1455, which restricted state enforcement of federal COVID-19 vaccination-proof requirements for employment. House roll calls: March 16, 2022, passage: voted yes (passed 174–159).

March 16, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1490, which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations based on vaccination status or refusal to use a medical device. The House rejected it. House roll calls: March 16, 2022, passage: voted yes (failed 161–170).

March 16, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for repeated prohibitions on public-school mask requirements. HB 1131 in 2022 retained instructional, extracurricular, and other-law exceptions; its veto override failed. HB 361 in 2025 retained protective-equipment exceptions for sports, chemicals, and educational purposes. House roll calls: HB 1131: March 15, 2022 passage, yes (166–157); September 15 veto override, yes (150–170; failed). HB 1093: March 28, 2024, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 187–184). HB 361: March 27, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 203–164). On March 15, 2022, voted against removing educator disciplinary sanctions from HB 1131’s school facial-covering-policy prohibition (152–168; failed).

March 15, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 1126, which proposed allowing minors age 16 or older to consent to FDA-approved vaccinations for communicable diseases without a parent's or guardian's consent. The motion passed 184–151 on March 10, 2022.

March 10, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 756, requiring proof of blood lead testing for children entering childcare and public schools. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–169). Voted to table and against passing HB 1642 as amended to require a blood-lead test result for children's entry to public school or child care. It allowed six months to obtain the test and preserved parental exemptions. On February 17, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 162–183 and the motion failed. On February 17, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 213–131 and the motion passed.

February 17, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for HB 1604's House amendment and passage requiring state and county medical facilities covered by federal vaccination conditions to grant medical, religious or conscience exemptions on a signed request without supporting documentation. On February 17, 2022, he supported the amendment; the vote was 174–173 and the motion passed. On February 17, 2022, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 176–174 and the motion passed.

February 17, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amendment 2205h to HB 549, which reset the electricity efficiency surcharge to its 2020 level and limited yearly increases to the three-year average inflation rate plus 0.25 percent. It applied the formula to natural-gas efficiency charges, reserved at least 20 percent of efficiency funds for low-income programs, and removed the energy efficiency board's planning and goal-setting duties. The amendment passed 187–156 on January 6, 2022. On January 6, 2022, also voted for passage of HB 549 as amended by 2205h. The House passed it 343–0.

January 6, 2022Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 691, a bill banning fluoridation chemicals in public water. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 212–143). Voted against tabling HB 611, a bill to prohibit adding fluoride to public water systems, while replacement amendment 1392h was pending. The motion passed 187–162 on January 6, 2022.

January 6, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted against killing HB 478, which required Saint-Gobain and its successors, from October 27, 2025, to pay the operating, maintenance and monitoring costs of removing PFAS contamination from Merrimack Village District wells 4 and 5 for as long as treatment was needed. The motion to kill the bill failed. The motion failed 139–212 on January 6, 2022.

January 6, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Cosponsored SB 259 in 2022 to expand municipal-host net-metering eligibility to chartered public schools, housing authorities, quasi-public entities and other government-administered or funded special-purpose entities. The House referred it for interim study on May 5, 2022.

January 5, 2022Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept HB 220’s Senate version, which barred COVID-19 vaccination requirements for access to state or local public facilities, benefits, and services, with exceptions for specified schools, child care, health care, corrections, and other protected settings. House roll calls: June 10, 2021, agreeing to Senate changes: voted yes (passed 198–162). Voted to table HB 1481, which proposed repealing the 2021 medical freedom law restricting state and local vaccination requirements for access to public facilities, benefits, and services. The motion passed 175–156 on March 16, 2022.

June 10, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to accept HB 373’s Senate version, which required both legislative and Executive Council approval before New Hampshire joined low-carbon fuel programs or similar fuel quotas, caps, or mandates. House roll calls: June 10, 2021, agreeing to Senate changes: voted yes (passed 195–158).

June 10, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for the June 4 House version of SB 103, which waived certain taxes and licensing requirements for out-of-state emergency workers and barred new landfill disposal areas within two miles of state parks. Passage passed 333–33 on June 4, 2021.

June 4, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for a floor amendment to SB 155 prohibiting discrimination based on vaccination or immunity status, with specified medical, religious and immunity exceptions and limited workplace direct-threat exceptions; requiring legislative approval for new mandatory childhood vaccines; and requiring written opt-in consent for the immunization registry. Amendment 1864h failed 182–193 on June 3, 2021.

June 3, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted on June 3, 2021 to adopt SB 134’s amended committee report, which included supported decision-making agreements as a guardianship alternative for adults with disabilities. The version also appropriated $210,000 for police mental-health intervention training. The House adopted the report 264–113 and ordered third reading.

June 3, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for the state operating budgets for fiscal years 2022–2023 and 2026–2027, including both final compromise versions. House roll calls: 2021 HB 1: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 205–178); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 208–172). 2025 HB 1: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–183); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 185–180). On April 7, 2021, voted for the majority FY 2022–23 operating-budget amendment (200–178; passed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $1,235,532 in FY 2022 for family-planning contracts (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $220,000 per year for youth tobacco prevention and cessation (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against additional child-care, homeless-youth outreach and home-visiting appropriations (174–207; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $2.92 million in state funds plus federal matching funds for FY 2023 adult Medicaid dental coverage (184–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing a DHHS staffing reduction and funding 22 existing child-protective-service positions (175–208; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 1’s majority FY 2026–27 operating-budget amendment (197–178; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for the first vote on HB 1’s budget conference report (182–183; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for reconsidering the initial rejection of HB 1’s budget conference report (185–180; passed).

April 7, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against tabling HB 63, a bill to reverse or forgive penalties for violating COVID-19 emergency orders. House roll calls: Feb. 24, 2021, motion to table: voted no (failed 156–196). On February 24, 2021, also voted for passage of HB 63 as amended, the bill addressing penalties for COVID-19 emergency-order violations. The motion passed 188–169 and the bill was referred to Finance.

February 24, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted against killing HB 420, which exempted cash of $200 or less and vehicles valued at $1,500 or less from drug forfeiture, and shifted administration of remaining forfeiture funds to DHHS for permitted enforcement reimbursements and drug treatment, mental-health treatment, rehabilitation, prevention and education. The House killed the bill 181–173 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for amended HB 614, which exempted state and local governments from the renewable-portfolio-standard portion of electricity charges, exempted those electricity sales from suppliers’ corresponding compliance requirements, and allowed a local governing body to vote to continue paying the charges. The House adopted the amended committee recommendation 198–150 and referred the bill to Ways and Means on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to kill HB 1580 on February 12, 2026; the House adopted the motion 284–55. The proposal imposed an additional annual tax of 0.75% on non-primary residential property assessed at $500,000 or more, exempted qualifying long-term rentals and existing statutory exemptions, and distributed revenue for municipal property-tax relief, schools, infrastructure, conservation or services.

February 12, 2026Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted to table HB 442 on March 20, 2025. The bill prohibited subminimum wages, including the lower hourly wage for tipped workers. House roll call: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 199–153).

March 20, 2025Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted against HB 112, which required 60 days’ notice before accepting an offer to sell restricted rental property and required good-faith consideration of tenant purchase offers, with additional time for financing. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 175–199).

March 9, 2023Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted against HB 57 in 2023, which raised the hourly minimum wage in stages to $15 with later inflation adjustments, and HB 1322 in 2024, which raised it to $17 by 2029 and increased tipped-worker pay. Both failed. Voted to table HB 726's increase to $15 by 2028 in 2025 and HB 1484's annual increases in 2026, then against taking HB 1484 off the table. House roll calls: HB 57: Feb. 22, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 178–183). HB 1322: Feb. 22, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 187–192). HB 726: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 197–159). HB 1484: March 5, 2026, motion to table: voted yes (passed 180–153); March 12, 2026, Remove From Table: voted no (failed 159–183). Voted on March 12, 2026 to uphold the chair's ruling that a motion to take HB 1484 up as the next order of business was dilatory. The ruling was upheld 191–153.

February 22, 2023Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for SB 420’s amended committee report providing extraordinary-need school grants based on municipal property wealth per pupil eligible for free or reduced-price meals, with accountability plans and annual progress reports. Grants started at $650 per eligible pupil for valuations of $1 million or less, tapered below $6 million, and stopped at $6 million. It also split additional special-education aid into $2,037.11 and $3,367.08 per pupil according to disability category and revised the fiscal 2023 low-income pupil calculation. The House adopted the report 261–71 on April 21, 2022 and referred the bill to Finance. On May 4, 2022, voted for amendment 1925h to SB 420, which increased the household-income eligibility ceiling for the education tax-credit scholarship program from 300 to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines. The amendment passed 171–150.

April 21, 2022Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted against bringing HB 1506 back from the table. It created a clean-energy financing fund to attract public, private and charitable capital for low-emission projects, directed 40% of investment to vulnerable communities, and required prevailing wages on fund-financed construction portions of projects costing more than $100,000. The motion failed 147–184 on April 21, 2022. Voted to kill HB 630, which established a state green bank for clean-energy financing and dedicated at least 40 percent of investments to financially vulnerable customers and communities. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, motion to table: voted no (failed 184–186). Feb. 14, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 187–182).

April 21, 2022Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of HB 1072, generally requiring 30 days' notice of Labor Department inspections and 30 days to respond to document or interview demands. It retained shorter-notice exceptions for recent violations, imminent risks, evidence interference, specified workplace-safety enforcement, and written employer consent. The override failed 160–159.

August 19, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to pass HB 1245 with amendment 0237h, creating voluntary portable benefit accounts for independent contractors and excluding contributions and authorized withholding from state worker-classification determinations. The House passed it 188–151.

March 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted against passage of HB 1464 on March 11, 2026; the motion failed 136–199. The proposal added political affiliation or opinion to employment-discrimination protections, created criminal penalties for specified politically motivated harassment and economic interference, and added political hostility as a ground for extended imprisonment.

March 11, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Cosponsored the original HB 1704 in 2026. Voted against killing HB 1704, which let public employees bargain with employers individually instead of through a union. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (passed 177–159). On March 11, 2026, voted for HB 1704 amendment 0699h providing independent public-employee bargaining, with specified public-safety and federal-funding exceptions (165–171; failed).

March 11, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Prime-sponsored HB 1250, which required at least 15 days’ notice for childbirth, postpartum, and infant medical-appointment leave and allowed employers to deny job reinstatement when the job was unavailable or reinstatement unduly disrupted operations. The House killed the bill on February 5, 2026.

February 5, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Cosponsored HB 1168 in 2026 to extend employers’ wage-claim objection deadline from 10 days to 30 days. The enacted law set the employer objection period at 20 days rather than the introduced 30 days, replacing the prior 10-day deadline. The later bill became law on May 8, 2026.

January 7, 2026Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to remove SB 171 from the table on May 1, 2025. A pending amendment repealed the two-hour minimum pay rule for employees who reported to work at an employer's request. House roll calls: May 1, 2025, motion to remove from the table: voted yes (failed 168–174). On March 12, 2026, voted to pass HB 1043 with amendment 0386h, allowing employers to replace the two-hour minimum pay for reporting to work with a different written policy. The House passed it 189–155.

May 1, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 487 on March 26, 2025. The bill required employers to provide work schedules seven days before scheduled shifts. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 196–155).

March 26, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against tabling HB 280, then voted for its amended version. It let employers and workers agree on wage payment methods and required 90 days’ notice of changes. It removed the list of permitted payment methods and detailed payroll card protections. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 172–192); March 20, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 191–176).

March 20, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for an HR 16 amendment supporting medical choice and workplace protections for health workers. It supported reintegration of workers dismissed for declining COVID-19 vaccination. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, amendment: voted yes (passed 202–166).

March 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to table HB 442 on March 20, 2025. The bill prohibited subminimum wages, including the lower hourly wage for tipped workers. House roll call: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 199–153).

March 20, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 282, doubling the total first responder critical injury benefit fund from $500,000 to $1 million. That motion failed 175–195 on February 20, 2025. Voted against passage on April 10; it passed 296–76. Voted for the broader revised bill on June 26; agreement passed 322–41. It kept the $125,000 individual benefit cap and added school funding and police and firefighter pension changes. The revised bill capped targeted school aid at $3,750 per pupil in districts with at least 5,000 pupils. It phased in higher pension benefits and appropriated $14.5 million initially, then $27.5 million yearly through 2034. It became law on June 27, 2025.

February 20, 2025Supports Labor Rights

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Voted on January 4, 2024 to table HB 232, a public-worker safety proposal. The pending replacement proposed applying specified OSHA workplace standards where applicable and reasonable and authorized additional labor inspectors. The tabling motion passed 190–182.

January 4, 2024Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against HB 58, which removed the lower base-wage allowance for tipped employees and required the federal minimum hourly wage before tips. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (failed 176–194).

March 16, 2023Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 378, requiring unused paid leave payouts after involuntary job loss, business closure or ownership changes. It applied to employers with at least 15 workers offering paid leave and excluded separately identified sick days. Workers retained the option to transfer leave after an ownership change through a written agreement. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 193–169). Voted on February 22, 2024 against HB 1178's amendment requiring employers with at least 15 employees to pay unused vacation and certain other paid time off when a business closed, changed ownership or employment ended without reasonable assurance of return. The amendment passed 199–179. On April 11, he supported an unsuccessful study referral, 188–193, then voted against the revised bill limiting required payouts to 30 days; passage succeeded 198–183. Voted against HB 74, which required payment for unused earned leave when employees left in good standing or were laid off and required payment or transfer when businesses changed ownership. The bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 187–174). Apr. 6, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 205–181).

February 22, 2023Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for HB 436, which phased out the 2011 pension transition rules for police and firefighters hired before July 2011 and appropriated $25 million annually through 2033 for benefit costs. The House passed the bill and referred it to Finance. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 282–80).

February 22, 2023Supports Labor Rights

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Voted for HB 250, which doubled accidental-death pensions for public employees to 100 percent of average final compensation, capped at $85,000, and assigned the cost of future benefits to the state general fund. The bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 260–103). Apr. 6, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 328–53).

February 22, 2023Supports Labor Rights

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Voted against HB 57 in 2023, which raised the hourly minimum wage in stages to $15 with later inflation adjustments, and HB 1322 in 2024, which raised it to $17 by 2029 and increased tipped-worker pay. Both failed. Voted to table HB 726's increase to $15 by 2028 in 2025 and HB 1484's annual increases in 2026, then against taking HB 1484 off the table. House roll calls: HB 57: Feb. 22, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 178–183). HB 1322: Feb. 22, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 187–192). HB 726: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 197–159). HB 1484: March 5, 2026, motion to table: voted yes (passed 180–153); March 12, 2026, Remove From Table: voted no (failed 159–183). Voted on March 12, 2026 to uphold the chair's ruling that a motion to take HB 1484 up as the next order of business was dilatory. The ruling was upheld 191–153.

February 22, 2023Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for SB 345 as amended, which allowed 14-year-olds to clean tables and stock supplies in alcohol-serving premises, raised the 16- and 17-year-old work limit to 35 hours in five-day school weeks, and repealed youth night-work and special-agreement restrictions. The bill passed the House. He opposed an amendment retaining 9 p.m. limits before school days and midnight limits otherwise. On May 5, 2022, he opposed the floor amendment; the vote was 154–181 and the motion failed. On May 5, 2022, he opposed tabling; the vote was 145–192 and the motion failed. On May 5, 2022, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 185–152 and the motion passed. Voted against HB 125, which limited enrolled 16- and 17-year-olds to 35 weekly work hours during the school year outside vacation weeks and prohibited youth work after 9 p.m. Sunday–Thursday or midnight Friday–Saturday during school months. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, amendment 0328h: voted no (failed 183–183). Mar. 16, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 175–195).

May 5, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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On April 21, 2022, voted against SB 401’s then-current version, which provided local highway and bridge aid and funds for police body and dashboard cameras, and authorized DOT fleet cameras. The House passed the bill 241–93. On May 4, 2022, voted for an amendment limiting unemployment benefits to 16 weeks at state unemployment rates of 3 percent or lower. It added one week for each half percentage point above 3 percent, up to 26 weeks above 8 percent. The amendment passed 173–142.

April 21, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 1478, which proposed taxing business profits at 8 percent for employers with at least 100 employees that paid any employee less than $15 an hour, for taxable periods ending on or after December 31, 2023. The motion passed 304–40 on March 31, 2022.

March 31, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for amended HB 1337, which tied the maximum duration of unemployment benefits to the state's average unemployment rate: 16 weeks at 3 percent or lower, rising with unemployment to a maximum of 26 weeks. Passage passed 179–153 on March 17, 2022.

March 17, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for HB 1165, which repealed the optional Granite State paid family leave insurance program, and against tabling it. House roll calls: March 17, 2022, motion to table: voted no (failed 160–172); passage: voted yes (passed 172–164).

March 17, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill CACR 14, which proposed a state constitutional right for all workers to join a union. The motion passed 182–159 on March 10, 2022.

March 10, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 1207, which required employers to provide up to three hours of paid time off to vote. House roll calls: Feb. 17, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 195–158).

February 17, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against HB 1587's original version, which proposed including the highest five years in the overtime and extra-compensation averaging limit for Group II retirement benefits and funded the actuarial cost from state surplus funds. Passage passed 231–113 on February 17, 2022.

February 17, 2022Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to table SB 61 in 2021, but against indefinitely postponing it and later right-to-work bills HB 1377 in 2024 and HB 238 in 2025. The bills prohibited agreements requiring workers to join or pay a union. The House indefinitely postponed all three. House roll calls: SB 61: June 3, 2021, motion to table: voted yes (failed 168–207); motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (passed 196–178). HB 1377: Feb. 22, 2024, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (passed 212–168). HB 238: Feb. 13, 2025, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (passed 200–180). On June 3, 2021, voted for House passage of the amended right-to-work bill barring compulsory union membership (175–199; failed).

June 3, 2021Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted to kill HB 590, a bill requiring employers to provide paid sick time. House roll calls: Feb. 24, 2021, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–148).

February 24, 2021Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted against amendment 0401h to HB 91, which added corrections, probation and parole personnel to the death-benefit provision and defined suicide as a work-related death. The amendment failed 150–206 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Opposes Labor Rights

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of HB 1369, requiring special-town-meeting warrants to use at least two of newspaper publication, public-place posting, and town-website posting, and adding prominent website posting for regular warrants where a town had a website. The override passed 305–12.

August 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted Yea on SB 643 with amendment 1812h, requiring DRA compliance documentation for locally adopted tax and budget caps and reductions of appropriations that exceeded caps without the required override. For cities and elected town councils adopting municipal budgets, it also required 30-day hearing notice, at least 60 minutes of public comment, a roll call on overrides, and publication of members' votes with the next tax bill. Passage passed 164–150.

May 14, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing SB 534's foreign-funding restrictions for state and local ballot measures and constitutional questions.

April 23, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against amendment 1625h to SB 586, replacing mandatory withholding of non-adequacy school grants for deficient audit reports with limited discretionary withholding and public explanations. The amendment failed 162–193.

April 23, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored the original HB 686 in 2025. Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing HB 686, which, as amended, barred government employees on duty from running political surveys of candidates.

March 11, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to kill HB 1083, which required disclosing the source of certain political donations in state elections. House roll calls: Feb. 19, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–161).

February 19, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB 1130 as amended on February 19, 2026; the House passed it 192–151. The House proposal required publication of individual judicial performance evaluations while excluding questionnaire comments, added courtroom observation and case-processing statistics, and shortened follow-up evaluation after an unsatisfactory result from 18 to 12 months.

February 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to kill HB 1570, a proposal to require budget authority approval, cost estimates, public notice, and quarterly reporting before and during local law enforcement participation in federal immigration enforcement agreements. The bill also gave the budget authority power to terminate agreements and withheld state funding from noncompliant agencies. The motion passed 198–161.

February 12, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 314 as amended, restricting publicly funded lobbying and requiring municipal voter approval and public expense reporting to authorize such lobbying. The amended bill preserved testimony by officials and employees unless they were required to register as lobbyists. Passage failed 152–198 and the House killed the bill.

January 8, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 121 as amended, strengthening municipal and school audit requirements and authorizing state probation and corrective administration for financially unstable or noncompliant school districts. The amended bill allowed state aid to be withheld for overdue audits after notice and allowed a state-appointed administrator to override district management decisions, reassign staff, and terminate the superintendent or business manager for cause with an appeal. It passed 187–154.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to pass HB 656 as amended, requiring school districts to disclose expected government funds and related obligations in annual reports and to give public notice of unanticipated government funds. The bill required a hearing for receipts of $20,000 or more and a public agenda and minutes for smaller receipts, while retaining the exemption for statutory education aid. It passed 186–155.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored the original HB 158 in 2025. Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing HB 158, which made absentee ballot lists available for timely public inspection.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 1807 in 2026 to compute and disclose current school cost per pupil using prior approved appropriations and October enrollment, with separate treatment of cooperative and regional-enrollment districts. Voted against amendment 1110h to HB 1807 on March 11, 2026; it failed 153–181. That amendment added graphs of state, local-property-tax and Education Freedom Account funding. He then supported the bill as amended, which passed 185–150, consolidating school financial charts, reducing required poster size, expanding the administrator-salary table from four to ten positions and requiring budget information on the annual warrant. The bill became law on July 10, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 1776 in 2026 to require colleges to report foreign funding exceeding $50,000 over the funding relationship to education officials and the legislature each quarter. The House referred it for interim study on February 19, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 1309 in 2026 to require town-meeting warrant articles to state their intent and effect without deception or deliberate ambiguity. The enacted law required the intent and effect to be stated clearly and without commentary or ambiguity. The later bill became law on May 28, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption

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Prime-sponsored HB 557 requiring school-budget ballots to display the previous year's average cost per pupil and English-language arts, math, and science proficiency percentages; a later version became law on August 1, 2025.

August 1, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing SB 213, which, as amended, barred public employees from running candidate surveys or handing out campaign material on duty.

June 5, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for SB 62, barring local restrictions on police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and allowing county jails to hold people for up to 48 additional hours. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–162). On May 8, 2025, voted against requiring federal 287(g) officers to identify their name, badge number, agency and ICE authority (161–199; failed). On May 8, 2025, voted for SB 62 amendment 1957h barring local restrictions on federal immigration-law cooperation, authorizing AG enforcement and up to 48-hour county detention, and reporting refused detainers (202–160; passed).

May 8, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted against tabling HB 66 and supported amended passage on April 10, 2025. It expanded public-record access to any person and included preliminary drafts circulated to a public body's quorum. It guaranteed remote requests and delivery for people with New Hampshire ties and members of the media, subject to technical exceptions. It removed the filing-fee exemption for citizen appeals of the records ombudsman's decisions. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 179–191); April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 207–164).

April 10, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for amended HB 284 on March 27, 2025. It required estimated property-tax impacts on local budgets and special warrant articles. Multiyear articles required annual estimates for up to five years. It also required an estimate for all tax-impact articles combined, including on official ballots. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 198–160).

March 27, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Prime-sponsored HB 495 in 2025, which required towns to show a breakdown of tax changes on tax bills. The House killed the bill on March 26, 2025.

March 26, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Prime-sponsored HB 340 in 2025 and wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing it, which tightened the ban on public employees electioneering while on duty; a later version became law on July 10, 2026.

February 6, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 389 in 2025 to require candidates spending no more than $1,000 during a reporting period to check a campaign-report form attesting to that amount. The House killed it on March 20, 2025.

January 9, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 313 in 2025 to let a person entitled to attend a meeting about their reputation require an open session rather than a nonpublic one. The House killed it on January 7, 2026 through the adopted consent calendar.

January 8, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Supported SB 219's requirement for school districts to publish cost-per-pupil and salary reports before budget meetings, with a taxpayer civil remedy for violations. On May 2, 2024, he voted for passage, passing 180–179, and against reconsideration, which passed 185–181. He again voted for passage, which failed 182–184 after reconsideration, and against the final motion to kill the bill, which passed 178–172.

May 2, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB 1287, which defined evidence-based public-school teaching methods through reproducible studies, excluded surveys and other subjective measurements, and required publication of the studies used. Passage failed 179–193.

March 28, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against tabling HB 1479 on March 21, 2024; the motion failed 135–205. He also opposed indefinite postponement, which passed 211–129. The proposal prohibited use of state and local public funds for lobbying and political activity, with taxpayer injunctions and penalties for knowing violations; it preserved neutral information and lobbying with physically and financially separated other funds.

March 21, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against HB 1414 by supporting indefinite postponement. The bill raised Gunstock Area Commission's annual payment to the county from 1.75% to 3% of gross revenue excluding grants and donations, required prompt publication of public-meeting recordings, and required periodic forensic audits. The House postponed it 230–143.

March 21, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 26, a resolution urging a federal constitutional amendment distinguishing human from corporate rights and permitting regulation of political contributions and spending. The motion passed 194–179.

March 14, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 1392 in 2026 to remove governing-body and budget-committee recommendation notations from special appropriation warrant articles and revised ballots. The House killed it on March 5, 2026 through the adopted consent calendar. Voted on March 7, 2024 against the motion to kill HB 1120, a proposal repealing the requirement to print municipal governing-body and budget-committee recommendations and vote tallies on warrant articles. The motion passed 264–95.

March 7, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1266, a proposal permitting parties to record their own open family-court proceedings without interfering with the hearing. It excluded confidential proceedings and private communications such as attorney-client discussions. The House passed it 191–173.

March 7, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Spoke in favor and voted Yea on February 22, 2024 on HB 1577 as amended to let registered New Hampshire voters inspect digital ballot images under Secretary of State supervision after recounts and appeals. The House passed it 193–182. On April 11, he opposed tabling a revised version that proposed requiring municipal clerks to provide copies at a reasonable copying fee; the motion to table passed 193–188.

February 22, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted on February 8, 2024 against the motion to kill HB 1662, a proposal that barred simultaneous employment by DCYF and a licensed adoption or child-placing agency while preserving foster parenting for children whose removal and placement the employee had not handled. The motion passed 190–187.

February 8, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted on February 1, 2024 against HB 1002, a proposal that allowed public-records labor fees after 10 hours; the House passed it 193–179. After the bill was revised, he again voted against March 21 on a version permitting charges of up to $1 per electronic communication after the first 250, with indigence and public-interest waivers and specified good-faith redaction protections. That version passed 268–106.

February 1, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted on February 1, 2024 to kill HB 1372, a proposal that created a separate class A felony for committing or attempting torture under color of law against someone in custody or control. The motion passed 319–58.

February 1, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Prime-sponsored HB 1343 in 2024 to require written or electronic approval from legislative majority and minority leaders before the governor issues election-related emergency orders. The House killed it on March 7, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB 127, which limited governor-declared emergencies to 84 days and required majority approval in each legislative chamber for further 90-day renewals. House roll calls: March 22, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 193–185).

March 22, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted against killing HB 51, which required towns and school districts to approve local lobbying funding through a separate warrant article for each lobbying agency. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted no (passed 224–148).

March 9, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB 1070, which required default budgets in official-ballot towns and districts to reflect reductions the governing body made to appropriations in the proposed operating budget, and to disclose those reductions in the default-budget calculations. Passage passed 172–162 on March 17, 2022.

March 17, 2022Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for HB 1434's House version requiring school districts and charter-school trustees to make requested curriculum materials available within 10 business days to parents, guardians or district residents, with a practicability qualification for school districts. Passage passed 185–152 on March 16, 2022.

March 16, 2022Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted to kill HB 118, which expanded conservation organizations' role in nominations to the Fish and Game Commission, required public notice before appointments, and changed commissioner qualifications and removal rules. The motion passed 321–31 on January 6, 2022.

January 6, 2022Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted against HB 579 as amended, which required state and local law enforcement agencies informed of a planned federal immigration checkpoint to notify the public within 24 hours of its scheduled time or as soon as practical. Passage passed 254–85 on January 6, 2022. Voted against HB 624, which required New Hampshire law-enforcement agencies informed of federal immigration checkpoints to notify the public within 24 hours of the scheduled checkpoint or as soon as practical. The bill passed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 220–152).

January 6, 2022Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for amended HB 275, which limited a governor-declared emergency to 84 days without legislative renewal, and later voted to override its veto. The override failed. House roll calls: Jan. 6, 2022, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 190–165); Sept. 15, 2022, veto override: voted yes (failed 157–167).

January 6, 2022Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for amended HB 187, which allowed the joint legislative health oversight committee to rescind specified DHHS emergency orders by a two-thirds vote, kept specified treatment and quarantine orders under ethics advisory review, and changed oversight-committee membership. The House adopted the recommendation 333–6 and referred the bill to Executive Departments and Administration on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption

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Cosponsored HB 263 in 2021 to repeal voluntary campaign spending limits and change candidate-committee and contribution rules. The enacted law repealed voluntary spending limits, set $5,000 candidate and $10,000 other political-committee contribution caps and raised reporting thresholds from $500 to $1,000. The later bill became law on July 30, 2021.

January 6, 2021Opposes Anti-Corruption

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On May 21, 2026, Berry voted to concur with Senate amendment 1709 s to HB 1681, establishing construction, inspection, and zoning standards for tiny houses and yurts. It treated them as single-family or accessory dwellings subject to applicable land-use and water rules and required local acceptance of approved manufactured-element inspections while preserving local review of other project elements. Concurrence passed 242–102.

May 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted Yea on SB 508, requiring all zoning appeal grounds in the initial notice and municipal acceptance of revised plans within 10 business days when they addressed initial comments. The bill limited additional revision rounds unless those comments remained unaddressed. Passage failed 151–161.

May 14, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to pass HB 1555, giving the state fire marshal authority to review local fire-code decisions and approve alternatives to building-code requirements. The House passed it 192–162.

March 26, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for HB 1495 on March 5, 2026; the House passed it 185–162. The proposal limited school-district reimbursement-anticipation-note proceeds to the same purposes as the anticipated special-education or adequacy grants.

March 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 281's requirement to supply electronic voter checklists in a sortable format rather than only PDFs.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for amended SB 153 on May 8, 2025. It created an expedited driveway-permit process for residential developments of at least 20 units, using paid third-party reviews. An adopted amendment imposed 60-day decisions for completed applications for residential driveways outside the major-driveway category. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 293–61).

May 8, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing SB 16's seven-day deadline for clerks' postelection returns.

May 1, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to kill HB 646, requiring online applications for free and reduced-price school meals and state technical assistance. It included funding for a support position. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 209–165).

March 13, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency

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Voted to kill HB 521, which allowed online voter registration. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–169).

March 13, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 327's local-clerk or Secretary of State filing options for state-representative candidates and removal of an in-person notarization requirement.

February 20, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee’s report backing HB 261, which moved mandatory audits of top-ticket races, such as president or governor, to after state-representative recounts instead of delaying those recounts with a prior audit.

February 13, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the childcare committee's report backing SB 478's removal of redundant licensing notices and physical background-check cards, while increasing residential-provider noncompliance fines up to two thousand dollars.

May 2, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the childcare committee's report recommending killing HB 1409's independent licensing-review panel, explaining that an independent DHHS review process already existed. Prime-sponsored HB 1409 in 2024 to let the childcare advisory council review DHHS childcare licensing-violation decisions. The House killed it on March 21, 2024.

March 21, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1594's annual household-income eligibility checks for Education Freedom Accounts and changes to unused-fund carryovers. The motion passed 189–184.

March 14, 2024Opposes Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 1704's ballot-reconciliation changes and additional polling stations, citing complexity and unfunded requirements.

February 15, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to kill HB 601, which used Medicaid records to directly certify eligible children for free or reduced-price school meals without a separate application. House roll calls: Jan. 3, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–188).

January 3, 2024Opposes Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 447's allocation of three million dollars in federal election funds toward half of municipalities' new voting-equipment costs.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB 1056 in 2024 to prioritize childcare scholarship applications by childcare employees, allow ongoing application review and remove reapplication waiting periods. The enacted replacement instead allowed childcare beyond 13 hours when parents worked longer shifts or were deployed by the military during the weekend. The later bill became law on July 3, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB 1313 in 2024 to require electronic voter-checklist copies on request. The enacted law made at least one sortable electronic format available to any requester, with one free request per election and up to a $25 fee thereafter. The later bill became law on August 2, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB 1091 in 2024 to revise campaign-finance definitions, registration, treasurer duties and online reporting. The later bill became law on August 23, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Cosponsored HB 1202 in 2024 to impose deadlines for residential-driveway construction permits. The final law required state action within 60 days on completed non-major residential-driveway applications and local action within 65 days after notification of issuance. It also added disability and developmental-delay childcare-scholarship rules and appropriated $375,000, using available federal funds with no more than $1 from the general fund. The later bill became law on August 23, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing SB 70, which, as amended, used federal election money for new voting machines and an online portal to register and request absentee ballots.

June 8, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 405's separate voting classification for out-of-state college students, calling the distinction unconstitutional and burdensome.

March 16, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 415's treatment of cast ballots as public records outside recounts, citing cost and compliance burdens.

March 16, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for HB 154, which required majority approval by a town’s legislative body for new public-health ordinances issued by its health officer. The bill passed the House. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 192–180). The Senate replaced that original health-ordinance bill with an election-device bill. Moved to concur with the Senate replacement of HB 154, which updated election statutes for new electronic ballot counting devices, including ballot markings and colored headers, Ballot Law Commission approval and reapproval of altered devices, and pre-election testing and certification. The House adopted concurrence. On February 22, 2024, voted against reconsidering concurrence; reconsideration failed 162–201.

March 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted to reject SB 344, which allowed locally authorized public boards to meet with one quarter of their members physically present and other members participating by video when in-person attendance was impractical. It required public electronic access, roll-call votes, and adjournment during host access failures. The motion passed 176–155 on May 5, 2022.

May 5, 2022Opposes Government Efficiency

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Voted to reject SB 326, which directed state officials to develop a plan for an office of early childhood, including its duties, staffing, costs, and coordination of child care, education, health, and family outreach. The motion passed 178–151 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Government Efficiency

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Voted to pass SB 438's American steel requirement for state-administered public construction contracts using at least $1 million in state money, then voted for an amendment that accepted current out-of-state beauty licenses and exempted listed niche beauty services from occupational and shop licensing. On April 21, 2022, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 170–151 and the motion passed. On May 4, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 170–129 and the motion passed.

April 21, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted against tabling and for passing HB 1171's House version exempting blow-dry styling, makeup application, eyelash extensions, threading and specified demonstration or media beauty services from occupational and shop licensing requirements. On March 16, 2022, he opposed tabling; the vote was 156–190 and the motion failed. On March 16, 2022, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 201–147 and the motion passed.

March 16, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Prime-sponsored HB 1383 requiring electronic absentee-ballot applicant lists to be provided to eligible candidate requesters within one business day, excluding voters with valid protective orders. The House killed the bill on March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 1324's proportional allocation of presidential electors, citing its allocation mathematics and diminished state influence.

March 10, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing HB 1496, which, as amended, let a town's registered voters get electronic copies of the voter checklist.

February 16, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 86's election-law overhaul, including removal of Motor Voter and Election Day registration, citing impractical implementation and unequal treatment of college students.

January 5, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Prime-sponsored HB 1154 in 2022 to create a legislative committee to review statutory commissions inactive during the past year and recommend repeals or remedies. The House killed it on March 15, 2022 through the adopted consent calendar.

January 5, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

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Prime-sponsored HB 326 in 2021. The enacted version required town and city clerks to give candidates electronic lists of absentee-ballot applicants. It became law on August 10, 2021.

August 10, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for the June 4 House version of SB 103, which waived certain taxes and licensing requirements for out-of-state emergency workers and barred new landfill disposal areas within two miles of state parks. Passage passed 333–33 on June 4, 2021.

June 4, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing SB 46's permanent authorization of electronic voter checklists.

June 3, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 77's electronic same-day transmission of candidate filings, citing postal delays and ballot access.

April 8, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 505's approval-voting proposal, citing voter confusion and unnecessary complexity.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted against killing SB 625, which failed 146–150. He voted Yea on amendment 1955h removing Hepatitis B from required childhood immunizations, passed 157–138, and 1956h terminating DHHS refugee-resettlement contracts and prohibiting state agencies from accepting or spending money from any source for refugee resettlement, passed 155–140. He voted Yea on the amended bill, passed 156–139; it also created a homicide-family information study committee.

May 14, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Cosponsored the original HB 1706 in 2026. Voted for HB 1706, which repealed the state refugee resettlement program, and against killing or tabling it. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (failed 158–169); motion to table: voted no (failed 161–170); passage: voted yes (passed 170–164). The Senate killed the bill on April 16, 2026.

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Cosponsored the original HB 1709 in 2026. Voted for HB 1709 as amended to prohibit certain convicted alien felons who illegally reentered the United States from occupying or renting real property and authorize status verification and sheriff detention procedures. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to table: voted no (failed 153–181); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 181–154).

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for HB 1561, which barred citizens of the People's Republic of China from attending state colleges. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (failed 157–173).

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted to kill HB 1609, which limited public money and property for building and running certain immigrant detention centers. House roll calls: March 12, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 185–154). Voted on March 11, 2026 to uphold the chair's ruling that a motion to take HB 1609 up as the next order of business was dilatory. The ruling was upheld 223–96.

March 11, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Cosponsored HB 1499 in 2026 to allow evictions for unlawful presence in the United States, specified convictions within three years and registered-sex-offender status. Voted for the House-amended HB 1499, allowing eviction for using another person’s identification, an improper-entry conviction within three years, a crime punishable by more than one year with a conviction within five years, or current sex-offender or child-offender registration. Written disclosure before tenancy protected the disclosed conviction; the House version permitted eviction filings against only the offending household members. The House passed it February 19, 2026, 193–154. The later conference report was not signed off.

February 19, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for SB 13. It rejected specified out-of-state licenses issued to undocumented immigrants and blocked New Hampshire licenses for people with pending asylum claims. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–164).

May 22, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for SB 62, barring local restrictions on police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and allowing county jails to hold people for up to 48 additional hours. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–162). On May 8, 2025, voted against requiring federal 287(g) officers to identify their name, badge number, agency and ICE authority (161–199; failed). On May 8, 2025, voted for SB 62 amendment 1957h barring local restrictions on federal immigration-law cooperation, authorizing AG enforcement and up to 48-hour county detention, and reporting refused detainers (202–160; passed).

May 8, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for amended HB 461 on March 26, 2025. It required English-only driver-license examination materials and banned in-person or electronic translation during exams. It preserved devices for hearing or seeing English or American Sign Language. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 187–159).

March 26, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for HB 452, restricting asylum seekers’ driver’s license eligibility to people whose asylum requests had been granted. It tied temporary residents’ license terms to their authorized stay and marked them invalid for voting. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 198–162).

March 13, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for HB 71 as amended. It barred public schools and colleges from sheltering people not legally admitted into the United States, with a disaster exception. House roll calls: Feb. 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 211–146); April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 209–162).

February 6, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Cosponsored the original HB 511 in 2025. Voted for HB 511, which required cooperation with federal immigration detainers and barred sanctuary policies, including its final House passage. House roll calls: Feb. 6, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 351–6); April 10, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 211–161). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 511’s amendment allowing county ICE detention for up to 48hours only with a cost-and-medical-expense intergovernmental agreement (36–337; failed). A later version became law on May 22, 2025.

February 6, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1118's amendment restricting driver's licenses for refugees and asylees until lawful permanent-resident status was granted, requiring specified documentation for temporary foreign residents, marking those licenses and excluding them as identification for voting. The amendment passed 180–167 and the bill passed 179–166.

March 7, 2024Opposes Immigration

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Voted to kill HB 1093, which proposed allowing a 180-day driver's license for an asylum applicant living temporarily in New Hampshire who provided federal acknowledgment of a completed application. The motion passed 186–161 on March 31, 2022.

March 31, 2022Opposes Immigration

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Voted to kill HB 1666, which allowed applicants for a non-Real ID driver's license to omit a Social Security number, accepted alternative identity documents, and restricted disclosure of motor-vehicle records for civil immigration enforcement. The motion passed 189–160 on March 31, 2022.

March 31, 2022Opposes Immigration

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Voted for HB 1266 in 2022 and against tabling SB 132 in 2023. Both barred local policies restricting immigration-enforcement cooperation concerning people detained or in custody on suspicion of violating state law. The House tabled SB 132. House roll calls: HB 1266: March 15, 2022, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 172–162). SB 132: June 8, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 203–168).

March 15, 2022Opposes Immigration

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Voted to override Governor Ayotte's veto of HB 1565 on August 19, 2026. The final bill created criminal and civil liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports, required an owner's project manager when applying for school building aid for projects of at least $1.5 million, and established provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility after 90 days with a $1 appropriation and authority to request additional funding. The override failed 168–140, below the required two-thirds vote.

August 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On June 4, 2026, Berry voted Yea on HB 1588 conference report 2079 CofC, prohibiting garage requirements for residential parking and permitting multifamily housing by right on commercial land subject to comparable commercial dimensional standards and site-plan, fire, and building review. It allowed property-owner-approved special assessment districts for directly beneficial infrastructure, expanded housing infrastructure grants, and appropriated $1 for FY 2027. The report passed 185–171.

June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted against killing SB 625, which failed 146–150. He voted Yea on amendment 1955h removing Hepatitis B from required childhood immunizations, passed 157–138, and 1956h terminating DHHS refugee-resettlement contracts and prohibiting state agencies from accepting or spending money from any source for refugee resettlement, passed 155–140. He voted Yea on the amended bill, passed 156–139; it also created a homicide-family information study committee.

May 14, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted Yea on SB 643 with amendment 1812h, requiring DRA compliance documentation for locally adopted tax and budget caps and reductions of appropriations that exceeded caps without the required override. For cities and elected town councils adopting municipal budgets, it also required 30-day hearing notice, at least 60 minutes of public comment, a roll call on overrides, and publication of members' votes with the next tax bill. Passage passed 164–150.

May 14, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to defeat SB 603, directing DHHS to transfer existing funds to offset reduced federal SNAP funding, with prior approval for transfers of $100,000 or more. The House rejected it 186–158.

May 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill SB 545 on April 23, 2026; the motion passed 182–153. The bill required DHHS, subject to federal approval, to make Medicare Part D low-income prescription subsidies available to residents eligible for the Medicare Savings Program.

April 23, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against amendment 1625h to SB 586, replacing mandatory withholding of non-adequacy school grants for deficient audit reports with limited discretionary withholding and public explanations. The amendment failed 162–193.

April 23, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to defeat SB 543, establishing provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility and reimbursable state payments pending application decisions, a $1 initial appropriation and two program-administration positions. The House rejected it 182–154.

April 23, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB 101 amendment 1451h on April 23, 2026; it passed 182–172. It required public-school open-enrollment policies, state-funded transfers and locally set capacity. He opposed the study-only substitute, which failed 169–184, and supported passage of the amended bill, which failed 168–184.

April 23, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to defeat HB 1760, repealing Medicaid pharmacy copayment and Granite Advantage and CHIP premium directives and appropriating the amount necessary to replace lost funding. The House rejected it 184–153.

March 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report for HB 1300, which, as amended, replaced a congressional map with a November ballot question letting voters cap school district property taxes and central office spending; voted for it and for its final version. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to table: voted no (failed 158–179); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 177–160); June 4, 2026, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 183–170). Announced that he had filed a nongermane amendment to HB 1300 proposing a property-tax protection framework. Applauded Gov. Kelly Ayotte for signing HB 1300, the Taxpayer Protection Act, which put a school property tax cap question before voters. Published an op-ed in the Concord Monitor arguing that Democrats' property tax plans relied on raising taxes on small businesses. On September 1, 2026, condemned a lawsuit seeking to remove the property tax cap question from the November 2026 ballot, as author of the tax cap law. On March 11, 2026, voted for HB 1300 amendment 1117h limiting school-tax growth to inflation plus net new physical taxable-property growth, excluding appreciation and reassessment and requiring annual DRA certification (182–155; passed).

March 11, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored the original HB 1601 in 2026. Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 1601, which directed the Secretary of State to use federal funds to teach voters about recent election law changes.

March 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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As prime sponsor, wrote the majority report backing HB 1418's requirement that new or increased spending in SB 2 towns receive both a majority of votes cast and yes votes from at least 15% of registered voters. He then moved to table it on March 11, 2026, and it died on the table. The bill died on the House table when the session ended August 19, 2026.

March 11, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1609, which limited public money and property for building and running certain immigrant detention centers. House roll calls: March 12, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 185–154). Voted on March 11, 2026 to uphold the chair's ruling that a motion to take HB 1609 up as the next order of business was dilatory. The ruling was upheld 223–96.

March 11, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1610 as amended on March 5, 2026; the House passed it 182–167. The proposal required annual authorization of school contingency and retained-surplus funds, limited retained surplus to 3% of the budget appropriation, and restricted spending to unusual circumstances under statutory approvals. On May 21, he voted to concur with the Senate version, including rescission of existing indefinite authorizations; that motion passed 186–163. On August 19, he voted to override the veto, but the motion failed 162–148.

March 5, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1557 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 184–157. The proposal lowered the special-education cost threshold for state aid from 3.5 to 1.5 times the statewide average expenditure per pupil, increasing the share of exceptional costs paid by the state.

February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against passage of HB 1705 as amended on February 19, 2026; the House passed it 194–154. The adopted amendment appropriated $114,000 for the biennium ending June 2027 to enroll volunteer first responders and full-time responders from towns with five or fewer paid full-time responders in the state employee assistance program.

February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1799 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 185–159. The proposal set base education aid at $7,379.56 per pupil for the biennium beginning July 2027, increased differentiated aid, required municipalities to remit statewide education property-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund, and established school achievement plans and a funding commission.

February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1791 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 187–157. The proposal created an inclusive higher-education grant program for students with developmental disabilities at public institutions, required a quarter of grants to fund student scholarships, and appropriated $100,000 for fiscal 2028.

February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1826 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 192–157. The proposal set base adequacy aid at $4,438 per pupil for the biennium beginning July 2027 and differentiated aid at $2,441 for meal eligibility, $866 for English learners and $3,203 for special education.

February 19, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1803 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 191–157. The proposal barred students from eligibility for Education Freedom Account funds and education-tax-credit scholarships in the same program year or while holding a balance from the other program, and revised state payments for part-time Virtual Learning Academy students receiving either benefit.

February 19, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1810 on February 12, 2026; the House adopted the motion 177–156. The proposal charged a $4 fee per ton or equivalent unit of bulk road salt and brine, required bulk sellers to obtain five-year $200 certifications, and funded grants for certified winter-maintenance practices through a nonlapsing mitigation fund.

February 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1596, a proposal to raise the cigarette and little cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, provide an additional $18 million annual appropriation to the university system, and repeal premiums for children's health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The motion passed 200–157.

February 12, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1196, which repealed the state housing champion designation and grant program. House roll calls: Feb. 5, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 185–166).

February 5, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to pass HB 314 as amended, restricting publicly funded lobbying and requiring municipal voter approval and public expense reporting to authorize such lobbying. The amended bill preserved testimony by officials and employees unless they were required to register as lobbyists. Passage failed 152–198 and the House killed the bill.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 572, a proposal to support workforce housing on suitable municipal or county-owned land and appropriate $150,000 to compile eligible properties. The House Finance report noted that the state budget already contained the program framework but omitted this appropriation. The motion passed 191–156.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amendment 3013h to cap annual school district appropriations using inflation and later enrollment adjustments, with a two-thirds local vote to exceed the limit; it passed 184–168. He also voted Yea on a 6% central office spending limit, which passed 177–176. He voted against replacement amendment 0042h and on the final amended bill. The replacement passed 182–173, but final passage failed 9–346 and the bill was killed.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 392, which dissolved the Office of Health Access and prohibited funding projects labeled health equity or environmental justice while preserving specified language, disability, rural-access, and federally required services elsewhere in the health department. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–159). On January 8, 2026, voted for HB 392’s amendment dissolving the Office of Health Access and ending environmental-justice funding while preserving federal-compliance and rural-access functions elsewhere in DHHS (186–159; passed).

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 155 in 2025 to set the business enterprise tax rate at 0.50 percent for taxable periods ending on or after December 31, 2026. Voted for HB 155's January 8, 2026 version cutting the business enterprise tax rate from 0.55 to 0.50 percent. Also voted for its June 4 conference report. That version replaced the fixed cut with conditional 0.05 percentage-point cuts per $100 million certified business-tax surplus. Fiscal safeguards applied, with a 0.25 percent rate floor. It raised filing thresholds from $250,000 to $400,000 and provided $2.5 million for nursing-facility rates. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 189–165); June 4, 2026, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 195–157). The governor signed the conference version on July 10, 2026.

January 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 624 on January 8, 2026; the House adopted the motion 187–164. The pending House version established need-based grants for local river-management advisory committees, capped at $10,000 per committee annually, and appropriated $40,000 in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027.

January 8, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 1427 in 2026 to restrict municipal, county and school-district borrowing after a transition through 2030. Exceptions covered emergencies, threatened essential infrastructure, substantial matching funds and express voter authorization. On February 19, voted against killing it; the motion passed 234–112. The voter-authorization exception required two thirds with participation by at least half of registered voters.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill SB 204, a proposal to let school boards expand free school meals to students in households up to 200% of the federal poverty level, with the added meal costs shared equally by the state and district. The Senate version also appropriated $107,000 for administration and $250,000 for district reimbursement and application software. The motion passed 183–161.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 295, a proposal to make appropriations for school building aid nonlapsing preserving unspent funds for later use. The motion passed 191–150.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 97 on January 7, 2026; the House adopted the motion 175–156. The introduced proposal appropriated $15 million in each of fiscal 2026 and 2027 for eligible wastewater projects approved by June 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to concur in the Senate version of HB 564, requiring separate school administrative unit budget votes and an adjusted prior-year budget if voters rejected the proposed budget. The version also required unassigned general fund balances to be returned to constituent districts. Concurrence passed 184–140. He had voted Yea on the initial House bill, which passed 191–148.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 665, which required free school meals for children in households at or below 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–158).

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 651, a proposal to increase the base adequacy aid amount to $7,356.01 per pupil and raise differentiated aid for low-income students, English learners, and special education students. The motion passed 190–155.

January 7, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended SB 99, expanding career and technical students’ access to academic courses at receiving high schools. On June 5, 2025, voted for the tuition amendment (208–159; passed). It set tuition at least 80% of the sending district’s per-pupil cost, prorated for part-time credits. Voted for deleting required state funding (203–169; passed), then for passage (206–167; passed). Sending districts remained responsible for transportation and special-education costs. The bill became law on July 15, 2025.

June 5, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill SB 272 on May 22, 2025. It authorized local revolving funds for electric-vehicle charging stations and penalties for occupying charging spaces without charging. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 195–163).

May 22, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended SB 295, which removed the Education Freedom Account income limit, set an initial 10,000-student enrollment cap with 25 percent growth when applications reached 90 percent of the cap, and provided priority-group exceptions. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 188–176); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 190–178). On May 8, 2025, voted against conditioning SB 295 EFA expansion on a completed performance audit finding adequate management controls (165–199; failed). On June 5, 2025, voted against conditioning SB 295 implementation on a completed audit finding sufficient management controls (167–201; failed). On June 5, 2025, voted against reconsidering SB 295’s June passage (171–198; failed).

May 8, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended SB 105 on May 8, 2025. It authorized locally adopted town budget caps based on population and per-resident spending, adjusted for inflation. Adoption, changes, repeal, and cap overrides required three-fifths approval, with charter exceptions. The House version barred amendments to the cap-adoption question. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 193–168).

May 8, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2026–2027 budget policy package. It required Medicaid prescription copays and household-size premiums, with eligibility income thresholds and hardship protections. The charges remained subject to federal law and required federal approvals. It directed a federal waiver request for Medicaid-expansion work requirements. It banned defined diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public entities and schools, including implicit-bias training and race-based hiring preferences. It also prohibited related contract provisions and required public-school funding halts for violations. It repealed annual vehicle safety inspections. It appropriated $10 million plus available federal matching funds for staffed community-residence room and board. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 185–175); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 184–183). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2’s majority budget-policy amendment 1488h (200–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1529h permitting specified biological-sex classifications and exempting membership or direct-pay intermediate-care and rehabilitation facilities from specified rules, with a separate patient bill of rights (203–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1526h restricting local health regulations to nuisance prevention and removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccine requirements by rule (195–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1560h asserting a federal-commerce exemption for NH-only firearms, allowing adults to carry specified impact weapons and imposing liability for malicious false child-abuse reports or knowing failure to report (203–167; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 2 amendment 1555h requiring twice-yearly legislative reports on Title IV-E funds and compliance with federal program intent (104–268; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing HB 2’s local school tax cap (206–165; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against about $1.84 million per year for family planning, combining state and federal funds (174–196; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against $7 million per year for tourism and about $2.33 million in FY 2027 for welcome centers (198–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, consolidating commercial and land-use court dockets and increasing superior-court associate justices to 24 (183–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against seeking federal approval for Medicaid-based school-meal direct certification, consent-based enrollment and temporary aid-calculation changes (181–182; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before April passage (193–170; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before its final conference vote (185–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a broad alternative package reducing EFA appropriations, removing Medicaid copays/premiums and DEI prohibitions, preserving oversight bodies and restoring selected service funding (166–204; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Office of the Child Advocate with $1,075,549 in FY 2026 and $1,114,238 in FY 2027 (177–190; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against restoring arts appropriations and positions proposed for abolition (177–185; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing the new group III defined-contribution retirement plan (183–177; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and providing fiscal-capacity school aid of up to $1,500 per pupil with a $1 million–$2 million equalized-valuation range (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and appropriating $6.5 million in FY 2026 and $25.5 million in FY 2027 to the university system (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a 35 percent video-lottery tax (173–191; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing expiration of leases longer than six months as an eviction ground (159–205; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving local municipal approval of keno (183–181; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against requiring the Office of Health Equity and vendors to treat everyone with equal dignity and comply with the civil-rights act (116–248; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified opioid-fund appropriations and transfers, repeal of liquor contributions and termination of opioid-funded agreements (169–195; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified environmental and agricultural fee increases, reducing EFA appropriations and revising vehicle fees (165–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Human Rights Commission and positions with state and federal appropriations (161–203; failed).

April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for floor amendment 1493h to the capital budget, HB 25, on April 10, 2025. It revised transportation funding, including $390,000 in transit-vehicle matching funds and FAA project matching funds. It excluded active freight railroad lines from an $825,896 rail-and-tie replacement appropriation. The amendment failed, 136–232.

April 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 613 in 2025 to let SB 2 communities adopt a reduced-default-budget option. On March 27, voted for an optional 1%–10% reduction requiring local three-fifths approval (197–158; passed). Moved adoption of its later accessible-voting conference replacement. That version allowed local officials expecting no accessible-machine users to post notice 90–180 days before an election. A registered voter’s written request at least 60 days before the election required machine availability. The House adopted the report 195–158. The governor vetoed it on August 1, 2025. On December 17, voted to override (150–201; failed).

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 374, revising local tax and school-budget cap formulas, using October 1 inflation data, and allowing an existing cap to be replaced by a three-fifths vote while preserving it if replacement failed. The House passed it March 27, 2025, 195–159. Its House version barred amendments to cap-adoption questions; the final law removed that restriction and was signed July 15, 2025.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 475 on March 27, 2025, by a 195–159 vote. It changed default-budget calculations for official-ballot town meetings. It removed salaries and benefits for positions vacant before the previous budget approval and still vacant. It excluded later salary increases and deducted transfers for one-time spending. On December 17, voted for overriding the governor's veto, 178–175. The override failed; the veto was sustained. On March 12, 2026, voted to pass HB 1224 with amendment 0301h, excluding specified long-vacant positions and later salary increases from official-ballot town default budgets, with a restricted exception for public-safety vacancies under recruitment. The House passed it 186–160.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 703, which prohibited denying or stigmatizing students over unpaid school-meal balances and required state payment of specified meal debts. The proposed amendment removing state debt payments was not the bill killed. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–173).

March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 646, requiring online applications for free and reduced-price school meals and state technical assistance. It included funding for a support position. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 209–165).

March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the amended HB 675, capping local school operating budgets using inflation, enrollment and five-year averages. It excluded building purchases and construction. Spending above the cap required a two-thirds vote. The House amendment removed the original statewide tax increase and higher per-pupil school aid. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 190–185).

March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 245, using traffic violation revenue for police grants for speed enforcement and warning equipment. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 225–147).

March 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 524, which repealed the New Hampshire Vaccine Association, and against tabling it. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 175–198); passage: voted yes (passed 189–181).

March 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 751, requiring licenses for outpatient substance use treatment facilities and adding a specialist to investigate treatment complaints. It exempted recovery coaching, twelve-step groups and impaired driver care programs. The House version appropriated $211,000 for a compliance officer. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage as amended: voted no (passed 216–152).

March 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 282, doubling the total first responder critical injury benefit fund from $500,000 to $1 million. That motion failed 175–195 on February 20, 2025. Voted against passage on April 10; it passed 296–76. Voted for the broader revised bill on June 26; agreement passed 322–41. It kept the $125,000 individual benefit cap and added school funding and police and firefighter pension changes. The revised bill capped targeted school aid at $3,750 per pupil in districts with at least 5,000 pupils. It phased in higher pension benefits and appropriated $14.5 million initially, then $27.5 million yearly through 2034. It became law on June 27, 2025.

February 20, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 372 in 2025 to bar financing building or facility improvements that become equipment fixtures through municipal equipment-lease agreements. The House tabled it on March 27, 2025 by a 196–162 division vote.

January 8, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 100 in 2025 to bar state spending on passenger-rail planning, construction, operation or management and remove the Nashua-Manchester-Concord project from authorized toll-credit uses. The House referred it for interim study on January 7, 2026.

January 8, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 348 in 2025 to permit up to a 90-day residency requirement for local welfare assistance. On January 8, 2026, supported the amended residency-proof requirement, including discretionary consideration for specified victims and up to 72 hours of emergency aid; passage passed 190–157. The final law removed the waiting period, required acceptable residency proof, preserved eligibility for specified abuse and trafficking victims, and required up to six days of emergency aid. Aid continued during intermunicipal responsibility hearings. The law was signed May 22, 2026.

January 8, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB 383's optional local tax-cap adjustment using inflation and population or attendance changes, and optional school-district budget caps based on enrollment and per-pupil costs. Adoption and repeal of the school budget cap required a three-fifths vote, as did exceeding it. Passage succeeded 184–177, and he opposed unsuccessful reconsideration, 176–185.

May 9, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject SB 496's climate and health protection program for tracking health threats, planning responses, educating residents, and issuing alerts. The program depended on sufficient non-state funding and expressly prohibited general-fund appropriations. The House rejected it 186–182.

May 2, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against SB 417's strengthened oversight of children's out-of-home placements on May 2, 2024. It preferred suitable family and community placements, required monthly caseworker contact and court review, and appropriated about $1.61 million. He supported tabling, which failed 180–184, and opposed passage, which passed 191–174.

May 2, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against SB 476, which authorized an additional $40 million in bonded capital funding toward replacement of the state prison for men. House roll calls: May 2, 2024, passage: voted no (passed 217–144).

May 2, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1199 on April 11, 2024; the motion failed 190–191. He opposed passage, which failed 191–192, and supported indefinite postponement, which passed 192–190. The bill expanded the Office of the Child Advocate's work on homelessness among people age 25 or younger and appropriated $150,000 for an additional staff position, using available federal funds with any remainder from the general fund.

April 11, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to reject HB 1678's two-year farm-to-school food incentive pilot and its $120,500 appropriation for each of two years. The rejection motion failed 179–193, and the House later passed the bill on a division vote.

April 11, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1656's three levels of additional special-education aid: $2,642, $5,285, or $7,927 per pupil according to placement category. He opposed amendment 1327h's higher amounts of $3,408, $6,817, or $10,224. The higher-aid amendment failed on a 187–187 tie, and the lower-aid version passed 349–26.

April 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 94, ending Medicaid coverage for childhood circumcision except for medical necessity. A separate vision screening amendment failed before the vote. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 184–183). Voted to table HB 1683 on March 21, 2024, passing 188–187. On March 28 he voted to remove it from the table, passing 189–188, and against killing it, which failed 185–188. He supported reconsideration, passing 188–186, and passage of the amended bill, which failed 184–191. The proposal restricted Medicaid coverage of circumcision to specified medical indications, with an additional medical-necessity exception for minors.

March 21, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1254's local option to charge up to $2 per day for transient lodging to fund municipal services associated with tourism. The proposal capped charges at 30 days per visit and exempted lodging averaging $40 per day or less. The motion passed 195–171.

March 14, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for CACR 15, requiring two-thirds legislative approval for new or higher taxes, license fees, or state bonds. House roll calls: March 14, 2024, passage: voted yes (failed 183–185).

March 14, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on March 14, 2024 for the motion to kill HCR 9's rescission of New Hampshire's 2012 request for an Article V convention to propose a federal balanced-budget amendment. The motion failed 128–238; the House subsequently adopted an amended rescission without a named final vote.

March 14, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 23, a resolution calling on the congressional delegation to pursue national universal health insurance through a single-payer system. The motion passed 192–179.

March 14, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1660's exclusion of gender-reassignment surgery for people under 18 from state Medicaid coverage; the House passed it 193–169. He also opposed tabling, which failed 174–188.

March 7, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 1704's ballot-reconciliation changes and additional polling stations, citing complexity and unfunded requirements.

February 15, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against passage, for killing, and for tabling HB 1212, which expanded free school meals to children in households at or below 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines and used the Education Trust Fund to reimburse districts. House roll calls: Feb. 15, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 187–188); motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–187); passage: voted no (passed 193–175); April 11, 2024, motion to table: voted yes (passed 192–191). On February 15, 2024, voted against reconsidering the vote killing HB 1212’s expanded free-school-meal eligibility (187–181; passed).

February 15, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on February 15, 2024 for HB 1677, a proposal that expanded Education Freedom Account eligibility to students in districts or schools below 49 percent proficiency on specified statewide assessments, students denied enrollment transfers and prior-year EFA participants. Passage failed 174–192.

February 15, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1665, which raised the initial Education Freedom Account household-income limit from 350 to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines. House roll calls: Feb. 8, 2024, passage: voted yes (passed 190–189). On February 8, 2024, voted against reconsidering HB 1665’s EFA passage (186–192; failed).

February 8, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on February 8, 2024 for HB 1561, a proposal that expanded Education Freedom Account eligibility without an income limit for nine additional categories, including persistently bullied students, students with specified health or mental-health conditions and students meeting academic or district criteria. Passage failed 185–197; he requested a roll call and voted to reconsider, which also failed 189–192.

February 8, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 447's allocation of three million dollars in federal election funds toward half of municipalities' new voting-equipment costs.

January 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against amended HB 369 establishing a farm energy systems and infrastructure advisory program with UNH Cooperative Extension and appropriating $100,000 for a field specialist. Passage failed 186–187.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on January 3, 2024 for amended HB 354 making chartered public schools eligible for state school building aid equal to 30% of eligible construction costs, paid over 20 years. Eligibility required approved applications and asset disposition plans; it did not guarantee funding. The House passed it 190–177.

January 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on January 3, 2024 to kill HB 546, a proposal that required at least $50 million per fiscal year for school building aid in addition to debt-service payments. The motion failed 186–189; he then voted to table the bill, which passed 190–187. On March 28, he voted against passage; the House passed it 182–178.

January 3, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report backing SB 70, which, as amended, used federal election money for new voting machines and an online portal to register and request absentee ballots.

June 8, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amendment 2167h to SB 61, which proposed site-specific landfill setbacks from perennial surface waters, consideration of additional protective design measures, a $150,000 assessment appropriation and a hold on new landfill permit approvals pending new rules. The amendment failed 152–226. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, adopt floor amendment: voted yes (failed 152–226).

June 8, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On May 18, 2023, moved to table SB 263, a permanent Granite Advantage Medicaid renewal; the motion failed 182–192. Voted yes on 27 failed amendments covering renewal limits, work and drug-testing conditions, federally constrained copays, patient cost estimates, and regulated adult cannabis legalization. Voted no on House passage (193–166; passed and referred to Finance). On January 4, 2024, voted yes to kill the retained permanent-renewal bill (191–183; passed). The separate 2023 budget law renewed Granite Advantage through 2030. His May 18 yes votes on failed amendments were: 1910: 184–192; 1864: 181–199; 1749: 186–193; 1869: 184–195; 1841: 175–199; 1890: 175–194; 1750: 169–192; 1860: 175–194; 1748: 173–195. Additional failed amendment votes were: 1881: 176–193; 1747: 173–194; 1832: 168–193; 1857: 170–191; 1859: 169–196; 1867: 174–190; 1868: 169–190; 1870: 166–194; 1871: 162–191. The remaining failed amendment votes were: 1872: 166–191; 1873: 164–183; 1897: 164–190; 1901: 167–193; 1909: 163–191; 1922: 160–187; 1923: 156–198; 1929: 166–190; 1789: 118–241.

May 18, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against SB 128’s Senate version, which required courts to appoint counsel for involuntary mental-health admission proceedings when a person lacked counsel and paid necessary representation costs from the indigent-defense fund. It passed 207–177. House roll calls: May. 18, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 207–177).

May 18, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amendment 1642h to SB 152 to remove the workforce-development fund and offshore-wind training committee while retaining its marine-trades career pathway; the amendment failed 122–251. Voted against dividing the bill; that motion failed 118–255. Then voted against the Senate version, which established the pathway, a nonlapsing workforce-development fund and offshore-wind workforce-training committee; it passed 250–123. House roll calls: May. 4, 2023, amendment 1642h: voted yes (failed 122–251). May. 4, 2023, motion to divide the bill: voted no (failed 118–255). May. 4, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 250–123).

May 4, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes on June 8, 2023 to accept HB 2's final 2024–2025 budget policy package (326–53). It accelerated interest and dividends tax repeal to January 1, 2025. It raised base state education aid to $4,100 and additional aid for nonvirtual charter schools to $4,900. Childcare scholarship eligibility rose to 85 percent of state median income. It extended Granite Advantage through 2030. It also funded 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage with a $600,000 appropriation. On April 6, 2023, voted for HB 2 amendment 1336h including $30 million in affordable housing, $4,000 base school aid, $5,000 additional nonvirtual-charter aid, Medicaid provider-rate increases and limits on gubernatorial emergency renewals (326–63; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s acceleration of interest-and-dividends-tax repeal to 2025 (190–199; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s changes to community-college employees’ retirement-system status (199–187; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against redirecting 32.5 percent of business-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund and shifting specified education appropriations from the general fund (191–197; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against $3 million per year to reduce resident tuition at UNH, Plymouth State and Keene State (128–259; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted for raising initial EFA income eligibility to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines (167–222; failed).

April 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the initial House version of HB 337, requiring licensing-office boards to give 14 days’ meeting notice, access to nonexempt materials seven days before meetings and opportunities for public comment. Voted against overriding the veto of the final version, which included revised notice and comment exceptions and a funded attorney position. House roll calls: Apr. 6, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 387–0). Oct. 26, 2023, House veto override: voted no (passed 251–104).

April 6, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored the original HB 639 in 2023. Voted for amended HB 639, which legalized and regulated cannabis for adults 21 and older and appropriated $15.6 million for implementation. The House passed it. House roll calls: April 6, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 272–109). The Senate killed the bill on May 11, 2023.

April 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 534, which proposed a nonlapsing fund to assist residents with repair, replacement and treatment of private drinking-water wells after natural disasters, with assistance based on ability to pay and $2.5 million appropriations in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The motion failed 191–196. House roll calls: Apr. 6, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 191–196).

April 6, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill CACR 4, a proposed constitutional amendment raising legislators' pay. House roll calls: March 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 239–145).

March 23, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amendment 1104h to HB 49, which funded a state-operated replacement for the Sununu Youth Services Center with $21.6 million, capped the new facility at 18 beds with an operating plan for 12, and required closure of the old center when the replacement opened. The amendment passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to make the bill a special order: voted yes (passed 291–87). Mar. 23, 2023, amendment 1104h: voted yes (passed 276–104).

March 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1634, which made every New Hampshire student eligible for Education Freedom Accounts. House roll calls: Feb. 8, 2024, passage: voted yes (failed 186–194). On February 8, 2024, voted for reconsidering the vote killing HB 1634’s universal EFA eligibility (188–193; failed). Voted against tabling HB 331, which removed the family-income limit for education freedom accounts. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 277–103).

March 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 524, which increased the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowance-revenue threshold retained for energy efficiency from $1 to $3 before ratepayer rebates. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 181–186).

March 16, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing HB 415's treatment of cast ballots as public records outside recounts, citing cost and compliance burdens.

March 16, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against killing HB 51, which required towns and school districts to approve local lobbying funding through a separate warrant article for each lobbying agency. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted no (passed 224–148).

March 9, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 367, which raised the initial Education Freedom Account income limit from 300 to 350 percent of the federal poverty level without a subsequent income test. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 187–184).

March 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 464, which made specified groups eligible for Education Freedom Accounts regardless of income, including foster and homeless students, students with disabilities or bullying complaints, and children of military parents. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 192–184).

March 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 489, which created a county tourism grant fund with a $750,000 initial appropriation and ongoing meals-and-rooms tax support. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 190–171).

February 22, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against amended HB 565, which extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months. The House passed it. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 184–179).

February 22, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 436, which phased out the 2011 pension transition rules for police and firefighters hired before July 2011 and appropriated $25 million annually through 2033 for benefit costs. The House passed the bill and referred it to Finance. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 282–80).

February 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 250, which doubled accidental-death pensions for public employees to 100 percent of average final compensation, capped at $85,000, and assigned the cost of future benefits to the state general fund. The bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 260–103). Apr. 6, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 328–53).

February 22, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 574, which restored WIC farmers’ market nutrition benefits for locally grown produce at participating markets and roadside stands and appropriated $300,000. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (failed 180–184).

February 22, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 418, which ended Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative customer rebates and directed auction proceeds to energy-efficiency programs, including free small efficiency measures for residents. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 183–185).

February 14, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 620 creating an early-learning division in the Department of Education and a three-year public pre-kindergarten pilot program, then voted to kill the retained bill. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 183–174). Jan. 3, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–185).

February 14, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against passage and for killing HB 430, which limited new Education Freedom Account applications to students with a year in public school or entering kindergarten or first grade. Also voted against tabling it; the House tabled it and later killed it. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 185–185); motion to table: voted no (passed 186–183); Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 170–175); April 6, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 194–192).

February 14, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Cosponsored HB 224 in 2025 to rebate surplus renewable-energy-fund receipts to retail electric ratepayers per kilowatt-hour. On March 6, voted for its House version reserving administration, energy-innovation and incentive funds before rebates (200–162; passed). The House sent the bill to interim study on January 7, 2026. Cosponsored HB 1542 in 2026 to reduce all renewable-portfolio-standard alternative compliance payment rates to zero. Voted against tabling HB 1542 and for its passage as amended on February 12, 2026; the House rejected tabling 160–188 and passed the bill 189–157. The February version rebated remaining renewable-portfolio-standard alternative compliance payments to ratepayers. On March 26, he voted for a revised version directing remaining funds to the general fund through June 30, 2026 and, beginning July 1, 2027, rebating funds above administrative costs and funding for offshore wind energy innovation; the House passed that version 189–162. The Senate later replaced the payment changes with a study of the renewable portfolio standard, resource classes and fund. The House rejected the Senate version by a 189–148 division vote on May 21; no Berry cast was inferred from that vote. Voted for HB 246, which redirected remaining Renewable Energy Fund money after administration expenses to ratepayer reductions from July 2023 through June 2025. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (failed 179–186).

February 14, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 324, which provided eligible voters four $25 publicly funded campaign vouchers. The House rejected it. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 163–200). As Election Law Committee vice chairman, praised the House vote killing HB 324, a $6 million public campaign financing bill, as protecting taxpayers.

February 14, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against SB 450, which established a dedicated fund for the Prescription Drug Affordability Board, revised its manufacturer and pharmacy-benefit-manager assessments and appeals, expanded alternate members, and penalized knowing misuse or unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Passage passed 173–161 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to pass SB 381 as amended to establish and fund an independent special-education advocate with $500,000. The office was authorized to investigate complaints and inspect education records, help families with IEPs and 504 plans, require documents five days before meetings and oversee confidential family feedback. The bill also removed education references from the child advocate’s duties and record-access law. Passage passed 170–155 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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On April 21, 2022, voted against SB 401’s then-current version, which provided local highway and bridge aid and funds for police body and dashboard cameras, and authorized DOT fleet cameras. The House passed the bill 241–93. On May 4, 2022, voted for an amendment limiting unemployment benefits to 16 weeks at state unemployment rates of 3 percent or lower. It added one week for each half percentage point above 3 percent, up to 26 weeks above 8 percent. The amendment passed 173–142.

April 21, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB 420’s amended committee report providing extraordinary-need school grants based on municipal property wealth per pupil eligible for free or reduced-price meals, with accountability plans and annual progress reports. Grants started at $650 per eligible pupil for valuations of $1 million or less, tapered below $6 million, and stopped at $6 million. It also split additional special-education aid into $2,037.11 and $3,367.08 per pupil according to disability category and revised the fiscal 2023 low-income pupil calculation. The House adopted the report 261–71 on April 21, 2022 and referred the bill to Finance. On May 4, 2022, voted for amendment 1925h to SB 420, which increased the household-income eligibility ceiling for the education tax-credit scholarship program from 300 to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines. The amendment passed 171–150.

April 21, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to pass SB 376 as amended, pairing a study of a mental-health incident review board with $1.2 million for police crisis-intervention training and related staffing and attendance costs. Passage passed 206–107 on April 21, 2022.

April 21, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's majority report recommending killing SB 425, an $11.5 million online portal for voter registration and absentee ballot requests, calling it too costly.

April 21, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against bringing HB 1506 back from the table. It created a clean-energy financing fund to attract public, private and charitable capital for low-emission projects, directed 40% of investment to vulnerable communities, and required prevailing wages on fund-financed construction portions of projects costing more than $100,000. The motion failed 147–184 on April 21, 2022. Voted to kill HB 630, which established a state green bank for clean-energy financing and dedicated at least 40 percent of investments to financially vulnerable customers and communities. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, motion to table: voted no (failed 184–186). Feb. 14, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 187–182).

April 21, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against passing HB 1627 as amended to create a Department of Education administrator for education freedom accounts, appropriate $115,000 for the position and seek USDA participation in Medicaid-based direct certification of school meals. Also voted for a separate amendment allowing adults 21 and older limited cannabis possession, transfers without payment and home cultivation of up to six plants, three mature. The cannabis amendment failed; the education bill passed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 161–177 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 152–181 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 76–258 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 204–131 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against the HB 1661 conference report, which set regional career and technical education agreements, appropriated $9.35 million for preliminary garage work and relocating the Department of Justice, removed Medicaid premiums for employed adults with disabilities and older adults with disabilities, funded hospital birthing services, and revised housing-development and land-use approval rules. The report passed. Earlier, he voted against an amendment appropriating $35 million for the garage project. On March 31, 2022, he opposed the amendment; the vote was 271–65 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 244–99 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1070, which required default budgets in official-ballot towns and districts to reflect reductions the governing body made to appropriations in the proposed operating budget, and to disclose those reductions in the default-budget calculations. Passage passed 172–162 on March 17, 2022.

March 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 1337, which tied the maximum duration of unemployment benefits to the state's average unemployment rate: 16 weeks at 3 percent or lower, rising with unemployment to a maximum of 26 weeks. Passage passed 179–153 on March 17, 2022.

March 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against tabling and for HB 1194, which required a three-fifths vote, or a charter's specified supermajority, for appropriations exceeding a local tax cap. It counted only first-year costs of multiyear spending for the cap and reduced an official-ballot operating budget that exceeded the cap without three-fifths approval. On March 17, 2022, he opposed tabling; the vote was 148–181 and the motion failed. On March 17, 2022, he supported passage; the vote was 183–146 and the motion passed.

March 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 1432, which barred state funding for new passenger rail projects, and against tabling it. Federal funds, local funding, and private partnerships remained permitted. House roll calls: March 17, 2022, motion to table: voted no (failed 152–182); passage: voted yes (passed 187–144).

March 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1683, which repealed the Education Freedom Account program. House roll calls: March 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–166).

March 16, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 1587's original version, which proposed including the highest five years in the overtime and extra-compensation averaging limit for Group II retirement benefits and funded the actuarial cost from state surplus funds. Passage passed 231–113 on February 17, 2022.

February 17, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1657, a $600,000 farm-to-school reimbursement proposal covering 33.3% of qualifying New Hampshire food purchases and 16.6% of purchases from other New England farms, capped at $1,200 per school each year. The motion passed 186–164 on February 16, 2022.

February 16, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1516, which prohibited using local taxpayer funds for Education Freedom Accounts. House roll calls: Feb. 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 181–174).

February 16, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to kill HB 1684 in 2022 and to reject and indefinitely postpone HB 1512 in 2024. Both bills capped Education Freedom Account spending at the budgeted amount. House roll calls: HB 1684: Feb. 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 182–171). HB 1512: March 14, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 186–187); motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted yes (passed 187–185).

February 16, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against tabling HB 607 while a replacement amendment proposed local education freedom accounts. The proposal authorized districts to adopt the program by a three-fifths vote, using 80 percent of local per-pupil funds excluding special education, without a family income cap. The motion passed 187–170 on January 6, 2022. Voted against tabling HB 538, which established local education freedom accounts in districts approving the program by a three-fifths vote, without an income cap. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 296–83). Voted on February 15, 2024 against the motion to kill HB 1652, a proposal that allowed school districts to establish local Education Freedom Accounts through a three-fifths vote. District-funded grants were set in the proposal at twice base state adequacy aid plus applicable differentiated aid, without a household-income limit. The motion passed 194–179.

January 6, 2022Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against HB 103's final conference report establishing dental coverage for Medicaid recipients age 21 and older. It covered preventive, restorative and surgical care, limited removable prosthodontic coverage to specified waiver and nursing-facility populations, capped other benefits at $1,500 annually, and required federally allowed cost sharing above 100 percent of the poverty level while exempting preventive and diagnostic services. On January 6, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 225–127 and the motion passed. On March 16, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 237–100 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 246–105 and the motion passed.

January 6, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for SB 52, which reinforced municipal tax and spending caps adopted before 2011, expanded permitted budget exclusions, and required charter-defined supermajority approval to move excluded items outside the caps. House roll calls: June 4, 2021, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (failed 174–197); passage: voted yes (passed 195–177). On June 4, 2021, voted against reconsidering SB 52 passage on local tax caps (171–201; failed).

June 4, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted on June 3, 2021 to adopt SB 134’s amended committee report, which included supported decision-making agreements as a guardianship alternative for adults with disabilities. The version also appropriated $210,000 for police mental-health intervention training. The House adopted the report 264–113 and ordered third reading.

June 3, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the June 3 House version of SB 147, which omitted a proposed FAFSA graduation requirement, added teacher child-abuse registry checks and allowed special-education cost pools and emergency aid. On June 3, 2021, he supported amendment 1635h; the vote was 204–172 and the motion passed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed alternative amendment 1588h; the vote was 177–198 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed coach-bus amendment 1860h; the vote was 166–207 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 203–172 and the motion passed.

June 3, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for the state operating budgets for fiscal years 2022–2023 and 2026–2027, including both final compromise versions. House roll calls: 2021 HB 1: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 205–178); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 208–172). 2025 HB 1: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–183); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 185–180). On April 7, 2021, voted for the majority FY 2022–23 operating-budget amendment (200–178; passed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $1,235,532 in FY 2022 for family-planning contracts (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $220,000 per year for youth tobacco prevention and cessation (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against additional child-care, homeless-youth outreach and home-visiting appropriations (174–207; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $2.92 million in state funds plus federal matching funds for FY 2023 adult Medicaid dental coverage (184–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing a DHHS staffing reduction and funding 22 existing child-protective-service positions (175–208; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 1’s majority FY 2026–27 operating-budget amendment (197–178; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for the first vote on HB 1’s budget conference report (182–183; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for reconsidering the initial rejection of HB 1’s budget conference report (185–180; passed).

April 7, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2022–2023 budget policy package. It created Education Freedom Accounts with an initial income limit of 300 percent of the federal poverty level. It banned abortion at or after 24 weeks, except for maternal medical emergencies, and required an ultrasound before abortion. It restricted teaching specified concepts of inherent group superiority or oppression. It also cut business taxes and scheduled repeal of the interest and dividends tax by 2027. House roll calls: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–181); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 198–181). On August 20, 2021, published an op-ed defending his vote for the Education Freedom Account program, citing his own move from public to private school. On April 7, 2021, voted against removing transfers into the FRM victims recovery fund and its prospective-repeal changes (175–203; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against a $10,043,000 DHHS appropriation for agency transformation and efficiency projects (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on DHHS state funds for abortion services (181–199; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $100 million in education-aid adjustments to prevent grants falling below the previous year, subject to the aggregate cap and surplus (174–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $8,096,438 in FY 2022 and $7,480,501 in FY 2023 for DES state-aid grants, with new-infrastructure restrictions retained (186–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against raising the meals-and-rooms operator commission from 3 to 4 percent (176–208; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on expanding DHHS closed-loop referrals pending legislative review (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against requiring local voter approval of historical-racing devices (161–218; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against reconsidering HB 2 passage (175–204; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing creation of the Department of Energy and restoring the prior agency structure (177–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing prohibitions on specified divisive concepts from state contracts, grants and training (186–193; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the changes to gubernatorial emergency powers and nominal financial-emergency provisions (184–194; failed). On April 7, 2021, also voted for the Finance Committee’s budget-policy amendment 1059h to HB 2. The amendment passed 204–178. On April 7, 2021, also voted against amendment 1062h setting the House’s contingent intent to appropriate additional municipal education grants if final revenues exceeded House estimates or supporting federal education funds became available. It listed $45.7 million for fiscal 2022 attendance adjustments and $45 million in each of fiscal 2022 and 2023 for fiscal-disparity and low-income pupil aid. The amendment failed 178–203.

April 7, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted twice against passage and twice for killing HB 1417, which required the state to pay 7.5 percent of local employer retirement contributions for teachers, police, and firefighters. The House ultimately passed the bill. House roll calls: Feb. 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 173–172); passage: voted no (passed 182–169); March 31, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 163–182); passage: voted no (passed 186–159). On February 16, 2022, voted against reconsidering the vote killing HB 1417’s state contribution toward local retirement costs (180–171; passed). On February 16, 2022, voted for tabling HB 1417 after reconsideration succeeded (171–180; failed). Voted to table HB 1279 on March 28, 2024, which failed 182–192, and to kill it, which failed 178–194. The proposal required the state to pay 7.5% of local employers' retirement contributions for teachers, police officers, and firefighters. The House later passed the bill by voice vote. On January 7, 2026, supported killing the refiled HB 197 requiring the same 7.5% state payment for local teachers and Group II employers; the motion passed 172–159. Voted against an amendment to SB 333 that restored a 7.5 percent state share of municipal employer retirement contributions for teachers and Group II workers beginning in fiscal year 2024. The amendment passed 170–164 on May 4, 2022. Voted against HB 274, which required the state to pay 5 percent of local employer retirement contributions for teachers, police and firefighters beginning in fiscal 2022, leaving local employers to pay 95 percent. On February 24, 2021, voted against passage (failed 172–186), for killing the bill (passed 189–168), and against reconsidering that decision (failed 159–179).

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against killing HB 459, which proposed prohibiting transfers into zero-dollar line items in an approved local-government budget. The House killed the bill 198–153 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 591, which set annual tobacco-retail license fees of $216, $408 or $648 according to register count, allowed alcohol licensees an additional tobacco license for $6 per location, and removed two proposed liquor-investigator positions. On February 24, 2021, voted against reconsidering an earlier voice passage (reconsideration passed 203–137), then for the amended committee recommendation (adopted 203–147). The bill was referred to Finance.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 498, which required courts to use uniform criteria to determine indigence and pay the bail commissioner’s fee for an indigent defendant who used those services. The House adopted the recommendation 199–156 and referred the bill to Finance on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against amendment 0401h to HB 91, which added corrections, probation and parole personnel to the death-benefit provision and defined suicide as a work-related death. The amendment failed 150–206 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted against amended HB 532, which established an electronic animal-transfer records database for dogs, cats and ferrets, protected its data with specified investigation and court-order exceptions, appropriated $250,000 for maintenance, and established an IT manager position. The House adopted the recommendation 214–141 and referred the bill to Ways and Means on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for amended HB 614, which exempted state and local governments from the renewable-portfolio-standard portion of electricity charges, exempted those electricity sales from suppliers’ corresponding compliance requirements, and allowed a local governing body to vote to continue paying the charges. The House adopted the amended committee recommendation 198–150 and referred the bill to Ways and Means on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted to override Governor Ayotte's veto of HB 1565 on August 19, 2026. The final bill created criminal and civil liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports, required an owner's project manager when applying for school building aid for projects of at least $1.5 million, and established provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility after 90 days with a $1 appropriation and authority to request additional funding. The override failed 168–140, below the required two-thirds vote.

August 19, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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On June 4, 2026, Berry voted Yea on HB 1279 conference report 2115 CofC, authorizing deadly force against a person likely to use unlawful force in committing a felony against the actor or a third person within the actor's dwelling or its curtilage. The report passed 208–140.

June 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for amendment 1286h to SB 460 on April 23, 2026; it passed 225–128. It made knowing presence within 500 feet of designated child-safety zones a felony for tier III registered offenders whose offense involved a minor. Legitimate-purpose defenses applied, including specified travel, voting, residence, employment and transporting one's own child. He opposed tabling, which failed 146–207.

April 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass SB 620 with amendment 1229h, increasing first chemical-test refusal license suspensions from 180 days to nine months and repeat suspensions from two to three years, generally consecutive to criminal penalties. The House passed it 259–94.

April 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 1710, a proposal adopting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, including court-ordered travel and passport restrictions, supervised visitation, bonds and emergency custody warrants when a credible abduction risk was established. The House passed it 198–161.

February 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report backing HB 1031's use of campaign funds for security measures, including a nonexclusive list of eligible items without a three-thousand-dollar cap; he later moved concurrence with the Senate amendment, which the House adopted.

February 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for amended SB 15, which allowed life imprisonment at hard labor for capital murder or aggravated sexual assault of children under 13 under specified jury findings, medical exemptions, and prison supervision. The amendment replaced the original drug-sentencing proposal. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 179–159).

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Cosponsored HB 1696 in 2026 to make knowingly missing a court appearance or committing a felony, misdemeanor or major motor-vehicle offense while released on a summons a separate misdemeanor. Any jail term had to run consecutively; uncontrollable failure-to-appear circumstances were an affirmative defense. The later bill became law on May 18, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Cosponsored HB 1730 in 2026 to raise the victim-age threshold for automatic aggravated sexual assault involving penetration from under 13 to under 16, expand specified felony sexual-contact offenses and authorize the death penalty for aggravated felonious sexual assault. The adopted replacement removed that child-age and death-penalty package. It removed the coercion requirement for specified institutional, detention, probation or parole authority sexual assaults and repealed the corresponding misdemeanor subsection. The later bill became law on May 28, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Cosponsored HB 1667 in 2026 to establish the first-in-the-nation security task force to coordinate security planning for campaign events related to the 2028 presidential election. The Senate rejected it, as reported in the April 9, 2026 House journal.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass HB 131 as amended, revising school bullying and cyberbullying policies to require reporting, parent notices, investigations, protective measures, and disciplinary responses. The amended bill strengthened reporting duties and allowed private suits for gross negligence or willful misconduct in implementing those duties. It passed 190–149.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against agreeing to Senate changes to HB 468 on June 12, 2025. It created state penalties for unlawful drone use, interference with emergency response and aircraft, prison contraband delivery, and armed drones. It preserved specified news-media and law-enforcement exceptions. It also increased minimum fines and license revocations for driving at least 100 miles per hour. House roll calls: June 12, 2025, agreement with Senate changes: voted no (passed 265–83).

June 12, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against tabling SB 263 and supported amended passage on June 5, 2025. It penalized AI-service operators who knowingly directed communications intended to encourage children to imminently engage in specified harmful acts. Civil enforcement belonged solely to the attorney general, with 90 days to cure violations and minimum damages of $1,000. An adopted amendment authorized lease-end evictions after at least six months of tenancy, with 60 days' notice. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 179–193); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 202–168).

June 5, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for SB 14 and its final version. It added mandatory prison terms for fentanyl crimes and reduced the first small-quantity psilocybin offense to a misdemeanor. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 214–167); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 185–182). On June 5, 2025, voted against tabling SB 14’s fentanyl-sentencing and small-quantity psilocybin bill (176–203; failed). On June 5, 2025, voted for SB 14’s majority amendment adding fentanyl and death-resulting mandatory minimums and a misdemeanor first adult small-quantity psilocybin offense (217–164; passed). On June 5, 2025, voted against replacing mandatory fentanyl minimums with a maximum 50-year sentence for 30grams or more and a cooperation exception, while retaining the psilocybin provision (169–211; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for the first vote on SB 14’s conference report (183–186; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for reconsidering the initial rejection of SB 14’s conference report (184–182; passed).

June 5, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to table SB 267 on May 22, 2025, then supported amended passage. It added a mandatory $500 fine for prostitution patrons and directed the proceeds to a human-trafficking task force. It raised paying or offering to pay for sexual contact to a Class A misdemeanor. The bill became Chapter 260 on July 29, 2025. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (failed 110–253); May 22, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 292–72).

May 22, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for SB 262 on May 8, 2025. It increased the mandatory minimum prison sentence for trafficking people under 18 from seven to 18 years. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 290–71).

May 8, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against SB 23 on May 1, 2025. It retained knowing endangerment but removed the additional purposeful-duty-violation requirement. Conduct placing a child in danger of serious bodily injury or death became a Class B felony. Conduct causing serious bodily injury or death became a Class A felony. Other violations remained misdemeanors except existing Class B grounds. Voted for killing the bill and opposed reconsidering that decision on May 8. House roll calls: May 1, 2025, passage: voted no (failed 154–188); May 1, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 190–152); May 8, 2025, motion to reconsider: voted no (failed 158–206).

May 1, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Prime-sponsored the original HB 592 in 2025. The enacted version repealed bail magistrates, expanded probable-cause-based detention and a rebuttable detention presumption for specified bail violations or new offenses, and required court hearings within 36 hours excluding weekends and holidays. Praised the signing on March 28, 2025. The governor signed the final bill on March 25, 2025.

March 25, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 419, requiring headlights when windshield wipers run during bad weather. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 227–129).

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 245, using traffic violation revenue for police grants for speed enforcement and warning equipment. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 225–147).

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for HB 649, which ended required safety and emissions inspections for passenger vehicles. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 212–143).

March 6, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 203, which required occupants of canoes, kayaks and rowing sculls to wear personal flotation devices on state waters from November 15 through May 15, except during official competition. The House killed it February 13, 2025, 215–162.

February 13, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against tabling HB 1607 on March 28, 2024, which failed 183–187, and against sending it to interim study, which failed 182–189. He supported sections expanding anonymous safe-haven infant surrender from seven to 61 days and authorizing alarm-equipped infant safety devices at facilities staffed around the clock, passing 372–1. He also supported a separate provision excluding evidence obtained directly from surrender from use against the parent; that provision failed 185–188.

March 28, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted on February 22, 2024 for HB 1111 as amended to permit civil and criminal liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports made maliciously or with intent to harm, and civil liability for professional mandatory reporters who knowingly failed to report suspected abuse. It preserved immunity for good-faith reports. The House passed it 199–179.

February 22, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for HB 1391 on February 1, 2024. It deferred inspection of qualifying newly purchased vehicles until the owner's birth month in the second year after purchase. Corporate buyers used the purchase-anniversary month. Eligibility required the first owner to buy from a licensed dealer during or before the vehicle's model year. The House passed it 241–123.

February 1, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted on February 1, 2024 to kill HB 1372, a proposal that created a separate class A felony for committing or attempting torture under color of law against someone in custody or control. The motion passed 319–58.

February 1, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted on January 4, 2024 to table HB 232, a public-worker safety proposal. The pending replacement proposed applying specified OSHA workplace standards where applicable and reasonable and authorized additional labor inspectors. The tabling motion passed 190–182.

January 4, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against HB 628, which required private schools and education providers that take public money to run staff background checks, and for killing it. House roll calls: Jan. 3, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 174–199); motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 195–178).

January 3, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against the House version of SB 256, which phased in safety-training certificates for off-highway recreational vehicle operators born on or after January 1, 1978 when operating away from their own or specified family members’ owned or leased land. It established temporary and lifetime certificates, related fees and enforcement rules, and removed a driver’s license as an alternative to training. The House passed it 186–179. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 186–179).

June 8, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 222, which required drivers and passengers to wear seat belts and prohibited traffic stops solely for a seat-belt violation. House roll calls: March 16, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 206–162).

March 16, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill bills authorizing temporary court orders restricting firearm access for people found dangerous. HB 106 in 2023 included a petitioner burden of proof and firearm-return provisions; HB 1642 in 2026 penalized false petitions. House roll calls: HB 106: March 9, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 198–172). HB 1642: Feb. 12, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 206–153).

March 9, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On April 21, 2022, voted against SB 401’s then-current version, which provided local highway and bridge aid and funds for police body and dashboard cameras, and authorized DOT fleet cameras. The House passed the bill 241–93. On May 4, 2022, voted for an amendment limiting unemployment benefits to 16 weeks at state unemployment rates of 3 percent or lower. It added one week for each half percentage point above 3 percent, up to 26 weeks above 8 percent. The amendment passed 173–142.

April 21, 2022Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass SB 376 as amended, pairing a study of a mental-health incident review board with $1.2 million for police crisis-intervention training and related staffing and attendance costs. Passage passed 206–107 on April 21, 2022.

April 21, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against SB 306, which allowed certain driving offenses involving prohibited mobile-device use to be charged one offense class higher, up to a class A felony. Passage passed 201–132 on April 21, 2022.

April 21, 2022Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Prime-sponsored the original HB 1476 in 2022. Voted for amended HB 1476, which required preventive detention and a judge’s bail hearing for specified people arrested while on release or for repeat offenses, and against tabling it. The hearing deadline was 36 hours excluding weekends and holidays; personal-recognizance bail was barred in these cases. House roll calls: March 15, 2022, motion to table: voted no (failed 161–168); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 199–134). The Senate killed the bill under its session-end rule on September 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 1120, which added requirements for providers paid from education freedom accounts, including one year of operation, approval as a nonpublic school program for providers teaching students, health and safety compliance, and criminal-record checks for employees with direct student contact. The motion passed 165–155 on March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against HB 1540 as amended to require electronic recording of custodial interrogations. It required video and audio at police and detention facilities, at least audio elsewhere, and generally excluded unrecorded statements unless the court found them voluntary and reliable with a reasonable justification for not recording. Passage passed 233–122 on February 16, 2022.

February 16, 2022Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for amendment 2200h to HB 147, which proposed making bodily injury to a person age 65 or older first-degree assault, and unprivileged physical contact by force second-degree assault, when the actor was at least ten years younger or under age 55. The recorded vote was 66–260 on January 5, 2022.

January 5, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted against overriding the veto of HB 239, which set first-degree-assault prosecution within six years of the victim's eighteenth birthday and second-degree-assault prosecution within six years of the offense or three years of the victim's eighteenth birthday, whichever was greater. The veto override failed 35–312 on January 5, 2022.

January 5, 2022Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for SB 34, revising controlled-drug analog definitions and banning the sale, possession and use of synthetic urine or additives to defeat drug tests. Passage passed 240–134 on June 3, 2021.

June 3, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted on June 3, 2021 to adopt SB 134’s amended committee report, which included supported decision-making agreements as a guardianship alternative for adults with disabilities. The version also appropriated $210,000 for police mental-health intervention training. The House adopted the report 264–113 and ordered third reading.

June 3, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for the June 3 House version of SB 147, which omitted a proposed FAFSA graduation requirement, added teacher child-abuse registry checks and allowed special-education cost pools and emergency aid. On June 3, 2021, he supported amendment 1635h; the vote was 204–172 and the motion passed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed alternative amendment 1588h; the vote was 177–198 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed coach-bus amendment 1860h; the vote was 166–207 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 203–172 and the motion passed.

June 3, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to kill HB 365, which gave trained and certified federal law-enforcement officers state arrest powers in specified circumstances involving serious bodily injury or preventing the escape of a person believed to have committed a crime in the officer’s presence or a felony. The House killed the bill 260–89 on February 25, 2021.

February 25, 2021Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted Nay to override the veto of HB 1766, setting veterinary review and procedural safeguards for confiscating livestock in cruelty cases, requiring return within 10 days when no charge followed warrantless seizure, and protecting uninvolved owners' custody rights. It restricted permanent alterations and required euthanasia in specified unaffordable-treatment circumstances unless owners paid or, for temporary custody, surrendered the animal for care. The House override passed 249–56.

August 19, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of HB 1267, requiring school and charter-board policies barring nonemployees and specified legal or law-enforcement employees from questioning minor students without prior written parental permission. It protected parental and attorney presence and adult-student choice, while preserving legitimate child-welfare questioning without parental notice. The override passed 311–6.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of HB 1422, removing the three-year new-trial petition limit for felony or class A misdemeanor convictions when petitioners alleged innocence and newly discovered evidence and remained subject to incarceration, sentence terms, or collateral consequences. It required an initial showing before a hearing and counsel for indigent petitioners, preserved the new-trial merits standard, and reactivated victim services on request. The override passed 314–7.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On August 19, 2026, voted to override the veto of HB 1184. The bill set written emergency no-trespass orders for municipal and school property to expire within 35 days unless approved by governing-body roll call. Continued orders were limited to one year. It provided hearings and superior-court appeals. Existing orders required review within 90 days or became void. The House override passed 290–29.

August 19, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored the original HB 1709 in 2026. Voted for HB 1709 as amended to prohibit certain convicted alien felons who illegally reentered the United States from occupying or renting real property and authorize status verification and sheriff detention procedures. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to table: voted no (failed 153–181); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 181–154).

March 11, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for CACR 24 as amended on March 11, 2026. The proposal added a constitutional right for parents and legal guardians to direct their children's education without infringement. The motion failed 181–156 because it lacked the required three-fifths vote.

March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 1132, which restricted public-school and public-charter-school flags and banners to U.S., New Hampshire, and POW/MIA flags, with instructional, school, military, and municipal exceptions. Violations triggered removal, warnings, disciplinary action, and possible state penalties. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 182–156).

March 11, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amendments 0887h and 1098h to HB 1268 on March 11, 2026; they passed 178–160 and 181–158. He then voted for the bill, which passed 174–166. The House version removed general home-education recordkeeping and annual evaluations, made declarations optional except for public-school withdrawal or access, repealed the advisory council, protected family information, and required warrants or genuine emergencies for home inspections. The later amendment preserved educational neglect standards while barring neglect findings based solely on participation in home education or Education Freedom Accounts.

March 11, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HR 19 on March 5, 2026; the House adopted it 191–155. The nonbinding resolution encouraged public and private colleges and universities to host more conservative speakers alongside other viewpoints, condemned political violence and intimidation, and expressly disclaimed compulsory invitations or curriculum changes.

March 5, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 1323 on February 12, 2026; the House passed it 197–157. The introduced proposal defined parental alienation, authorized parenting-plan enforcement and required courts to consider it in custody and related child proceedings, while excluding good-faith protective actions based on a reasonable belief of abuse or neglect.

February 12, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended SB 15, which allowed life imprisonment at hard labor for capital murder or aggravated sexual assault of children under 13 under specified jury findings, medical exemptions, and prison supervision. The amendment replaced the original drug-sentencing proposal. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 179–159).

January 7, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB 1696 in 2026 to make knowingly missing a court appearance or committing a felony, misdemeanor or major motor-vehicle offense while released on a summons a separate misdemeanor. Any jail term had to run consecutively; uncontrollable failure-to-appear circumstances were an affirmative defense. The later bill became law on May 18, 2026.

January 7, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB 1730 in 2026 to raise the victim-age threshold for automatic aggravated sexual assault involving penetration from under 13 to under 16, expand specified felony sexual-contact offenses and authorize the death penalty for aggravated felonious sexual assault. The adopted replacement removed that child-age and death-penalty package. It removed the coercion requirement for specified institutional, detention, probation or parole authority sexual assaults and repealed the corresponding misdemeanor subsection. The later bill became law on May 28, 2026.

January 7, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against agreeing to Senate changes to HB 468 on June 12, 2025. It created state penalties for unlawful drone use, interference with emergency response and aircraft, prison contraband delivery, and armed drones. It preserved specified news-media and law-enforcement exceptions. It also increased minimum fines and license revocations for driving at least 100 miles per hour. House roll calls: June 12, 2025, agreement with Senate changes: voted no (passed 265–83).

June 12, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended SB 100, which limited teaching-discrimination prohibitions to instruction targeting racial groups, required intentional or knowing violations for educator discipline and civil claims against schools or districts, and preserved discussion of historical ideas as part of broader instruction. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 194–165).

June 5, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to table SB 267 on May 22, 2025, then supported amended passage. It added a mandatory $500 fine for prostitution patrons and directed the proceeds to a human-trafficking task force. It raised paying or offering to pay for sexual contact to a Class A misdemeanor. The bill became Chapter 260 on July 29, 2025. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (failed 110–253); May 22, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 292–72).

May 22, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for SB 262 on May 8, 2025. It increased the mandatory minimum prison sentence for trafficking people under 18 from seven to 18 years. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 290–71).

May 8, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for SB 62, barring local restrictions on police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and allowing county jails to hold people for up to 48 additional hours. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–162). On May 8, 2025, voted against requiring federal 287(g) officers to identify their name, badge number, agency and ICE authority (161–199; failed). On May 8, 2025, voted for SB 62 amendment 1957h barring local restrictions on federal immigration-law cooperation, authorizing AG enforcement and up to 48-hour county detention, and reporting refused detainers (202–160; passed).

May 8, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against SB 23 on May 1, 2025. It retained knowing endangerment but removed the additional purposeful-duty-violation requirement. Conduct placing a child in danger of serious bodily injury or death became a Class B felony. Conduct causing serious bodily injury or death became a Class A felony. Other violations remained misdemeanors except existing Class B grounds. Voted for killing the bill and opposed reconsidering that decision on May 8. House roll calls: May 1, 2025, passage: voted no (failed 154–188); May 1, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 190–152); May 8, 2025, motion to reconsider: voted no (failed 158–206).

May 1, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 226 on March 26, 2025. The bill authorized drug checking through registered harm-reduction organizations and protected their staff during authorized activities. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 140–196).

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 198, legalizing up to three-fourths of an ounce of cannabis for adults 21 and older. It penalized public smoking and vaping. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 208–125).

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 50 on March 26, 2025. It preserved restrictions on teaching discriminatory concepts and applied educator discipline and civil remedies to intentional or knowing violations. It protected historical discussion within academic instruction. An adopted amendment also protected objective discussion of scientifically supported differences among specified groups. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 183–157).

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to kill HB 638 on March 26, 2025. The bill granted parole eligibility to certain prisoners serving life sentences for a single first-degree murder. Eligibility required age 60, more than 18 years served, and no disciplined Class A or B violation within ten years. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 214–127).

March 26, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 380 on March 26, 2025. The bill removed an additional criminal penalty for unauthorized cannabis sales by medical-cannabis patients or caregivers. General penalties for illegal sales remained. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 143–200).

March 26, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Prime-sponsored the original HB 592 in 2025. The enacted version repealed bail magistrates, expanded probable-cause-based detention and a rebuttable detention presumption for specified bail violations or new offenses, and required court hearings within 36 hours excluding weekends and holidays. Praised the signing on March 28, 2025. The governor signed the final bill on March 25, 2025.

March 25, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 10, recognizing parents’ rights over children’s upbringing, education, and health care. It limited government interference and provided court remedies. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 162–211); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 212–161); June 5, 2025, agreeing to Senate changes: voted yes (passed 210–160).

March 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HCR 1 supporting consideration of all relevant climate data and perspectives in policymaking throughout the United States. The resolution criticized suppression of differing views and climate alarmism. The House passed it March 6, 2025, 197–156. A December 17, 2025 House journal message recorded the Senate’s refusal to admit the resolution.

March 6, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 53, which let medical cannabis patients and caregivers grow cannabis at home. House roll calls: Feb. 20, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 328–42).

February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 75, which legalized cannabis for adults 21 and older; the motion to kill it failed. House roll calls: Feb. 20, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 167–190).

February 20, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored HB 336 in 2025 to permit political signs on public property and highway rights of way with local government permission or affected landowner consent. The House killed it on February 13, 2025 through the adopted consent calendar.

January 8, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended SB 574, authorizing written appointments of temporary caregivers for up to 60 days, with two adult witnesses and limits protecting existing parental and court rights. The House version also changed state policy to support approximately equal parenting time and required courts to explain departures from it. Passage succeeded 352–7.

May 9, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against amendment 1728h to SB 508. The combined amendment required validated mental-health and substance-use screening and qualified community reentry-provider access in county jails, and directed use of the IHRA antisemitism definition in discrimination enforcement and training while preserving protected speech. It passed 189–160.

May 9, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against amended SB 459, which required family courts to explain evidence rulings on the record, provided notice and forms concerning automatic child-support wage assignments, and authorized parenting coordinators in high-conflict cases with both parties' agreement. It also established a child-protection study committee. The House passed it 270–94.

May 9, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 1280 on March 28, 2024, codifying physicians' informed-consent duties and patient rights to treatment information, refusal of treatment, privacy, medical records, second opinions, and continuity of care. It preserved emergency treatment without prior consent when the patient lacked decision capacity and no surrogate was available. The bill passed 189–181.

March 28, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against tabling HB 1607 on March 28, 2024, which failed 183–187, and against sending it to interim study, which failed 182–189. He supported sections expanding anonymous safe-haven infant surrender from seven to 61 days and authorizing alarm-equipped infant safety devices at facilities staffed around the clock, passing 372–1. He also supported a separate provision excluding evidence obtained directly from surrender from use against the parent; that provision failed 185–188.

March 28, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 1539, which directed removal of eligible misdemeanor cannabis-possession convictions and allowed court petitions for resentencing or annulment without changing possession limits. House roll calls: March 28, 2024, passage: voted yes (passed 283–80).

March 28, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 21, 2024 for HB 1659 as amended to require compensatory parenting time after unjustified noncompliance with a parenting plan or a DCYF investigation that found no abuse or neglect, and permit a $500 noncompliance fine. It also provided both parents access to a child's records unless a court order, parenting plan or law barred it. The House passed it 198–174.

March 21, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 21, 2024 for HB 1336's amendment protecting lawful firearm storage in locked vehicles out of view at employers receiving public funds. It also barred all employers from demanding disclosure or searching vehicles except through lawful police searches and gave employers qualified civil immunity. The amendment passed 201–172; final House passage used an unnamed division vote.

March 21, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1311's school-library selection and reconsideration policies, a motion that failed 185–190. He then voted against the bill's protections against removing materials based on protected identities or viewpoints and its requirement to maintain access during review; passage succeeded 194–180. He supported reconsideration, which failed 183–192.

March 14, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 1231, which allowed registered medical-cannabis patients and caregivers age 21 or older without felony convictions to grow three mature plants, three immature plants, and twelve seedlings, with site-registration and safety rules. House roll calls: March 14, 2024, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 294–66).

March 14, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 14, 2024 for HB 1204's warrant requirement for state and local government agents entering posted or enclosed private premises, with exceptions for consent, emergencies and specified Fish and Game enforcement. It excluded unlawfully obtained evidence and invalidated resulting arrests. The House passed it 228–139.

March 14, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1359's limitation of zoning appeals and rehearing requests to applicants, abutters, participating parties and specified municipal officials instead of any aggrieved or directly affected person. The bill also defined properties directly across a street or stream as abutters. The House passed it 265–88.

March 7, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing CACR 17, a proposed constitutional amendment giving parents a fundamental right to direct their children's upbringing and education. House roll calls: March 7, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted no (failed 174–186).

March 7, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1266, a proposal permitting parties to record their own open family-court proceedings without interfering with the hearing. It excluded confidential proceedings and private communications such as attorney-client discussions. The House passed it 191–173.

March 7, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on February 22 and April 11, 2024 for HB 1288's due-process requirements for serious disciplinary proceedings at public colleges and universities, including notice, access to evidence, cross-examination, an impartial decision-maker and appeal. The bill also delayed proceedings on the same allegations while criminal charges were pending, while permitting temporary protective action. Passage votes were 192–185 and 196–184; he opposed an April tabling motion that failed 180–186. On January 7, 2026, voted to pass HB 510 as amended, establishing notice, evidence review, impartial hearings, representation, and appeal rights for students, student organizations, and faculty facing major disciplinary sanctions at public colleges. The bill preserved emergency measures against imminent physical harm and existing faculty collective bargaining procedures until agreement expiration. It passed 197–149.

February 22, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on February 22, 2024 for HB 1111 as amended to permit civil and criminal liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports made maliciously or with intent to harm, and civil liability for professional mandatory reporters who knowingly failed to report suspected abuse. It preserved immunity for good-faith reports. The House passed it 199–179.

February 22, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for CACR 13, a proposed constitutional amendment stating that all persons have the right to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude. The House passed it 366–5 on February 1, 2024.

February 1, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on February 1, 2024 to kill HB 1372, a proposal that created a separate class A felony for committing or attempting torture under color of law against someone in custody or control. The motion passed 319–58.

February 1, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against amended HB 470, which expanded legal drug checking equipment beyond fentanyl and xylazine tests and protected possession of up to 10 milligrams of controlled substances for analysis and authorized harm reduction activities. The House passed the amended bill 212–161.

January 3, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against SB 128’s Senate version, which required courts to appoint counsel for involuntary mental-health admission proceedings when a person lacked counsel and paid necessary representation costs from the indigent-defense fund. It passed 207–177. House roll calls: May. 18, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 207–177).

May 18, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Wrote the Election Law Committee's report recommending killing SB 271's restrictions on New Hampshire national-convention delegates, citing political parties' association rights.

May 4, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Cosponsored the original HB 639 in 2023. Voted for amended HB 639, which legalized and regulated cannabis for adults 21 and older and appropriated $15.6 million for implementation. The House passed it. House roll calls: April 6, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 272–109). The Senate killed the bill on May 11, 2023.

April 6, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 1305, which protected free speech and association at public colleges and universities. House roll calls: March 14, 2024, amendment: voted yes (passed 197–175); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 206–169). On March 14, 2024, voted for reconsidering HB 1305 amendment 0654h preserving college authority to restrict unlawful conduct, constitutionally unprotected speech and defined harassment (189–183; passed). Voted against tabling HB 516, which barred campus free-speech zones, protected student organizations’ belief-based membership rules, and created court remedies for violations at public colleges. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 306–73).

March 22, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 497, which required court approval before child-protection officials withheld case records from eligible recipients or blocked sharing among eligible recipients based on harm to a child. The bill passed the House. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 178–173).

March 16, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 324 and to override its veto. It removed K–12 education’s exemption from obscenity laws, required a school-material complaint process, and allowed civil enforcement when schools violated that process or a final removal decision. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 183–148); Dec. 17, 2025, veto override: voted yes (failed 183–167). Voted to pass SB 33 as amended, requiring local school boards to adopt policies and a parent complaint and appeal process for school materials considered harmful to minors, age-inappropriate, or otherwise inappropriate. The amended bill supplied criteria for harmful material and limited the obscenity-law educational justification to higher education. It passed 181–157. Voted for SB 434's public-school policies and parental complaint procedures concerning obscene or otherwise inappropriate materials on May 14, 2026. Passage with amendment 1937h passed 188–161. On August 19, he supported overriding the veto; the motion failed 165–140 and the veto stood. Voted against tabling HB 514, which removed K–12 education from specified obscenity-law protections and required school procedures for parental complaints about allegedly harmful material. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 200–175).

March 16, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to kill HB 328, which legalized LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and peyote for adults 21 and older. House roll calls: March 16, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 290–76).

March 16, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 31 in 2023, repealing the possession-and-sale ban on blackjacks, slung shots and metal knuckles while retaining wrongful-use felony penalties. Passage passed 196–176 on March 9. On March 14, 2024, supported HB 1276's repeal of the adult ban while retaining minor carrying and transfer prohibitions; passage passed 198–175. Supported the same adult/minor distinction in HB 207 on February 20, 2025, passing 207–162, and HB 1048 on March 5, 2026, passing 192–154.

March 9, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 498, which required warrants and probable cause for specified Fish and Game searches for wildlife and marine species. The motion to kill the bill passed. His later vote to reconsider also failed. House roll calls: Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted no (passed 233–113). Mar. 9, 2023, reconsideration: voted yes (failed 117–256).

February 23, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to kill HB 581, a bill repealing the Controlled Drug Act and creating a committee on the changes required for repeal. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 286–70).

February 22, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against passing SB 397 as amended, which joined the interstate professional counseling compact and exempted child placements with a parent from the existing placement compact when a court found a substantial parent-child relationship and the child's best interests. Passage passed 202–132 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against the May 4 amended version of SB 459, which required covered private hospitals and larger urgent-care networks to maintain workplace-violence prevention programs, report incidents, and participate in a workplace-safety commission. State-operated facilities and non-hospital urgent-care networks with fewer than three New Hampshire clinics were exempt. The bill passed the House. Earlier, he supported removing its expansion of warrantless misdemeanor arrests. On April 21, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 182–146 and the motion passed. On April 21, 2022, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 264–64 and the motion passed. On May 4, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 220–87 and the motion passed.

April 21, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against an amendment to SB 458 that proposed replacing the Sununu Youth Services Center with a secure treatment facility of no more than six beds and restricting juvenile detention and commitments, with an exception for a demonstrated serious public-safety risk. The amendment passed 182–150 on April 21, 2022.

April 21, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against passing HB 1627 as amended to create a Department of Education administrator for education freedom accounts, appropriate $115,000 for the position and seek USDA participation in Medicaid-based direct certification of school meals. Also voted for a separate amendment allowing adults 21 and older limited cannabis possession, transfers without payment and home cultivation of up to six plants, three mature. The cannabis amendment failed; the education bill passed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 161–177 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 152–181 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 76–258 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 204–131 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 1598, which legalized adult cannabis possession and use and established state-operated retail stores, and against tabling it. House roll calls: March 31, 2022, motion to table: voted no (failed 118–216); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 169–156).

March 31, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 1425, which exempted property owned by or intended for individuals or families from emergency takings. For other emergency takings it required replacement costs, loss-of-use compensation, and claim-related legal and administrative fees, and gave original owners a right of first refusal when the state sold the property. Passage passed 179–150 on March 16, 2022.

March 16, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to table HB 1576 in 2022 and to indefinitely postpone HB 1162 in 2024. Both repealed provisions of the 2021 law restricting teaching specified concepts about discrimination in education and workplaces. House roll calls: HB 1576: March 16, 2022, motion to table: voted yes (passed 186–158). HB 1162: March 14, 2024, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted yes (passed 192–183). Voted to table HB 1090, which repealed the 2021 restrictions on teaching and workplace discussions about protected characteristics and protected school employees' instruction about the historical or current experiences of protected groups from civil liability. The motion passed 165–153 on March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Prime-sponsored the original HB 1476 in 2022. Voted for amended HB 1476, which required preventive detention and a judge’s bail hearing for specified people arrested while on release or for repeat offenses, and against tabling it. The hearing deadline was 36 hours excluding weekends and holidays; personal-recognizance bail was barred in these cases. House roll calls: March 15, 2022, motion to table: voted no (failed 161–168); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 199–134). The Senate killed the bill under its session-end rule on September 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against HB 1540 as amended to require electronic recording of custodial interrogations. It required video and audio at police and detention facilities, at least audio elsewhere, and generally excluded unrecorded statements unless the court found them voluntary and reliable with a reasonable justification for not recording. Passage passed 233–122 on February 16, 2022.

February 16, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted to table HB 254 and against passing it as amended to limit juvenile commitment to listed serious offenses, with an exception for felony cases where clear and convincing evidence showed no other services or placement protected the public from serious bodily injury. It required counsel and written findings and phased in limits on detention before adjudication. The table motion failed and the bill passed. On January 6, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 151–204 and the motion failed. On January 6, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 264–87 and the motion passed.

January 6, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 238, which excluded discovery of a victim's sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, including nonforcible advances, from objectively reasonable provocation for manslaughter. Passage passed 223–118 on January 6, 2022.

January 6, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 414, which proposed limiting the governor to recommending, rather than compelling, evacuations during a state of emergency and allowed emergency services to be withheld from people who declined to evacuate. The motion passed 198–156 on January 6, 2022.

January 6, 2022Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against HB 237, a bill to legalize and regulate cannabis. House roll calls: Jan. 5, 2022, passage: voted no (failed 163–170).

January 5, 2022Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted on June 3, 2021 to adopt SB 134’s amended committee report, which included supported decision-making agreements as a guardianship alternative for adults with disabilities. The version also appropriated $210,000 for police mental-health intervention training. The House adopted the report 264–113 and ordered third reading.

June 3, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against SB 162’s amended health-and-human-services package, which removed the requirement to designate a single therapeutic-cannabis center, allowed registry certifications lasting up to three years, revised health-program funds and child-protection investigations, and required assessments and court review for children placed in qualified residential treatment programs. The House passed the bill 240–136 on June 3, 2021.

June 3, 2021Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 196, which exempted displaying a firearm or other means of self-defense to warn off a criminal trespasser or specified threat from the criminal-threatening statute. House roll calls: April 7, 2021, amendment: voted yes (passed 203–164); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 208–159). Voted to remove HB 1108 from the table and against killing it on March 11, 2026; those motions passed 177–158 and failed 151–186. He then voted for the amended bill, which passed 193–144. The House proposal exempted defensive display of a firearm or other lawful means of self-defense from criminal-threatening charges in response to reasonably perceived threats of serious injury, death, theft, unlawful intrusion or refusal to leave after a lawful trespass notice.

April 7, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted Yea to pass HB 195 on April 7, 2021 (198–169) and to concur with the Senate amendment on June 10 (206–155). The final amendment provided that displaying a firearm, by itself and without additional circumstances, does not constitute reckless conduct.

April 7, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2022–2023 budget policy package. It created Education Freedom Accounts with an initial income limit of 300 percent of the federal poverty level. It banned abortion at or after 24 weeks, except for maternal medical emergencies, and required an ultrasound before abortion. It restricted teaching specified concepts of inherent group superiority or oppression. It also cut business taxes and scheduled repeal of the interest and dividends tax by 2027. House roll calls: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–181); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 198–181). On August 20, 2021, published an op-ed defending his vote for the Education Freedom Account program, citing his own move from public to private school. On April 7, 2021, voted against removing transfers into the FRM victims recovery fund and its prospective-repeal changes (175–203; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against a $10,043,000 DHHS appropriation for agency transformation and efficiency projects (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on DHHS state funds for abortion services (181–199; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $100 million in education-aid adjustments to prevent grants falling below the previous year, subject to the aggregate cap and surplus (174–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $8,096,438 in FY 2022 and $7,480,501 in FY 2023 for DES state-aid grants, with new-infrastructure restrictions retained (186–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against raising the meals-and-rooms operator commission from 3 to 4 percent (176–208; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on expanding DHHS closed-loop referrals pending legislative review (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against requiring local voter approval of historical-racing devices (161–218; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against reconsidering HB 2 passage (175–204; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing creation of the Department of Energy and restoring the prior agency structure (177–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing prohibitions on specified divisive concepts from state contracts, grants and training (186–193; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the changes to gubernatorial emergency powers and nominal financial-emergency provisions (184–194; failed). On April 7, 2021, also voted for the Finance Committee’s budget-policy amendment 1059h to HB 2. The amendment passed 204–178. On April 7, 2021, also voted against amendment 1062h setting the House’s contingent intent to appropriate additional municipal education grants if final revenues exceeded House estimates or supporting federal education funds became available. It listed $45.7 million for fiscal 2022 attendance adjustments and $45 million in each of fiscal 2022 and 2023 for fiscal-disparity and low-income pupil aid. The amendment failed 178–203.

April 7, 2021Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 197, which expanded the deadly-force defense to protection of another person in a vehicle, dwelling, or its curtilage from unlawful force during a felony. House roll calls: Feb. 25, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 206–144). On February 25, 2021, also voted against reconsidering amended HB 197’s passage. Reconsideration failed 141–207. On February 25, 2021, voted to table HB 81, a proposal extending the justification for deadly force on the actor’s property to defending another person against unlawful force in the commission of a felony. The tabling motion was adopted 331–17.

February 25, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against tabling HB 63, a bill to reverse or forgive penalties for violating COVID-19 emergency orders. House roll calls: Feb. 24, 2021, motion to table: voted no (failed 156–196). On February 24, 2021, also voted for passage of HB 63 as amended, the bill addressing penalties for COVID-19 emergency-order violations. The motion passed 188–169 and the bill was referred to Finance.

February 24, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted against killing HB 420, which exempted cash of $200 or less and vehicles valued at $1,500 or less from drug forfeiture, and shifted administration of remaining forfeiture funds to DHHS for permitted enforcement reimbursements and drug treatment, mental-health treatment, rehabilitation, prevention and education. The House killed the bill 181–173 on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 187, which allowed the joint legislative health oversight committee to rescind specified DHHS emergency orders by a two-thirds vote, kept specified treatment and quarantine orders under ethics advisory review, and changed oversight-committee membership. The House adopted the recommendation 333–6 and referred the bill to Executive Departments and Administration on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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Voted for amended HB 498, which required courts to use uniform criteria to determine indigence and pay the bail commissioner’s fee for an indigent defendant who used those services. The House adopted the recommendation 199–156 and referred the bill to Finance on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

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On June 4, 2026, Berry voted Yea on HB 1588 conference report 2079 CofC, prohibiting garage requirements for residential parking and permitting multifamily housing by right on commercial land subject to comparable commercial dimensional standards and site-plan, fire, and building review. It allowed property-owner-approved special assessment districts for directly beneficial infrastructure, expanded housing infrastructure grants, and appropriated $1 for FY 2027. The report passed 185–171.

June 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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On May 21, 2026, Berry voted to concur with Senate amendment 1709 s to HB 1681, establishing construction, inspection, and zoning standards for tiny houses and yurts. It treated them as single-family or accessory dwellings subject to applicable land-use and water rules and required local acceptance of approved manufactured-element inspections while preserving local review of other project elements. Concurrence passed 242–102.

May 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to defeat HB 1171, providing a 90-day eviction grace period for residential tenants whose missed rent resulted from an unexpected halt in Social Security payments. The House rejected it 186–155.

March 12, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored the original HB 1709 in 2026. Voted for HB 1709 as amended to prohibit certain convicted alien felons who illegally reentered the United States from occupying or renting real property and authorize status verification and sheriff detention procedures. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to table: voted no (failed 153–181); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 181–154).

March 11, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against tabling HB 1336 on March 11, 2026; the motion failed 157–177. The proposal permitted up to one extra month's rent as a conditional deposit for applicants who failed specified screening criteria. Written notices and re-screening refund rights applied. On August 19, he supported overriding the final bill's veto; the motion failed 159–155 and the veto stood.

March 11, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 1499 in 2026 to allow evictions for unlawful presence in the United States, specified convictions within three years and registered-sex-offender status. Voted for the House-amended HB 1499, allowing eviction for using another person’s identification, an improper-entry conviction within three years, a crime punishable by more than one year with a conviction within five years, or current sex-offender or child-offender registration. Written disclosure before tenancy protected the disclosed conviction; the House version permitted eviction filings against only the offending household members. The House passed it February 19, 2026, 193–154. The later conference report was not signed off.

February 19, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 1405, a proposal for state-backed guarantees covering 80% of qualifying affordable housing loans, with limits of $30 million per lender per year and $300 million in outstanding guaranteed loans. The motion passed 186–162.

February 5, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted for HB 1196, which repealed the state housing champion designation and grant program. House roll calls: Feb. 5, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 185–166).

February 5, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 572, a proposal to support workforce housing on suitable municipal or county-owned land and appropriate $150,000 to compile eligible properties. The House Finance report noted that the state budget already contained the program framework but omitted this appropriation. The motion passed 191–156.

January 8, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against agreeing to Senate changes to HB 342 on June 12, 2025. It exempted qualifying construction from lot-size and coverage variances when it matched zoning and the density of 51% of nearby properties. The comparison covered properties within 1,000 feet built before the section’s effective date. Zoning administrators verified conformity; subdivisions required planning-board approval. It also authorized local governing bodies to adopt clean-energy financing districts after hearings, subject to a 50-voter petition for town-meeting review. House roll calls: June 12, 2025, agreement with Senate changes: voted no (failed 154–195).

June 12, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against tabling SB 263 and supported amended passage on June 5, 2025. It penalized AI-service operators who knowingly directed communications intended to encourage children to imminently engage in specified harmful acts. Civil enforcement belonged solely to the attorney general, with 90 days to cure violations and minimum damages of $1,000. An adopted amendment authorized lease-end evictions after at least six months of tenancy, with 60 days' notice. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 179–193); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 202–168).

June 5, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against tabling SB 174 and supported amended passage on May 22, 2025. It barred planning boards from rejecting housing solely because of bedroom counts when water and sewage capacity were adequate. It preserved capacity reviews by building officials and state sewage rules, and allowed specified workforce-housing bedroom standards. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, motion to table: voted no (failed 179–180); May 22, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (failed 176–183).

May 22, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for amended SB 153 on May 8, 2025. It created an expedited driveway-permit process for residential developments of at least 20 units, using paid third-party reviews. An adopted amendment imposed 60-day decisions for completed applications for residential driveways outside the major-driveway category. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 293–61).

May 8, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for amended SB 284 on May 1, 2025. It barred municipalities from requiring more than one on-site parking space per residential unit. House roll calls: May 1, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 197–144).

May 1, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted for HB 617, raising protected home equity to $1 million in debt collection proceedings. It extended the protection to qualifying trust beneficiaries. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 216–146).

March 6, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 444, requiring landlords to give tenants 60 days’ notice before accepting a sale offer. It also gave tenants an opportunity to bid for the property. House roll calls: February 6, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 213–144).

February 6, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 459 in 2025 to cap minimum single-family lot sizes at sewage-system requirements on most unsewered residential land and 22,000 square feet on sewered land, unless empirical health or safety evidence justified larger lots. The House referred it for interim study on January 7, 2026.

January 9, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 631 in 2025 to permit multifamily or mixed-use development by right in specified urban municipalities and restrict specified zoning barriers. The enacted replacement required multifamily development on commercially zoned land with adequate infrastructure, allowed exclusions for incompatible industrial zones and ground-floor retail conditions, and exempted unchanged adaptive-reuse buildings from specified dimensional rules. The later bill became law on July 15, 2025. On March 20, 2025, voted against indefinitely postponing its amended housing version (128–211; failed).

January 9, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted against rejecting SB 538, a housing bill authorizing local tax relief for office-to-residential conversions, optional delegation of zoning amendments to local governing bodies after public hearings, and alternative parking arrangements for residential projects. The House rejected it 188–173.

May 2, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 1199 on April 11, 2024; the motion failed 190–191. He opposed passage, which failed 191–192, and supported indefinite postponement, which passed 192–190. The bill expanded the Office of the Child Advocate's work on homelessness among people age 25 or younger and appropriated $150,000 for an additional staff position, using available federal funds with any remainder from the general fund.

April 11, 2024Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 423 in 2023 to require two accessory dwelling units, allow specified existing detached structures, raise unit-size allowances and permit a workforce-housing condition. That bill died on the House table on October 26, 2023. Cosponsored the original HB 1291 in 2024. Voted for amended HB 1291 and against tabling it. The bill required municipalities to allow two accessory dwelling units: one attached or detached unit by right, and a second by right, conditional permit, or special exception, with specified local lot-size and affordability conditions. House roll calls: March 28, 2024, motion to table: voted no (failed 87–277); passage as amended: voted yes (passed 220–143).

March 28, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted to table HB 1545, a proposal allowing the state to sell or lease surplus property below fair market value to nonprofits developing affordable housing, with restrictions preserving that use. The House tabled it 190–185.

March 28, 2024Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted for HB 1399, which let towns allow two homes on certain single-family lots. House roll calls: March 28, 2024, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 220–140).

March 28, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted yes on June 8, 2023 to accept HB 2's final 2024–2025 budget policy package (326–53). It accelerated interest and dividends tax repeal to January 1, 2025. It raised base state education aid to $4,100 and additional aid for nonvirtual charter schools to $4,900. Childcare scholarship eligibility rose to 85 percent of state median income. It extended Granite Advantage through 2030. It also funded 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage with a $600,000 appropriation. On April 6, 2023, voted for HB 2 amendment 1336h including $30 million in affordable housing, $4,000 base school aid, $5,000 additional nonvirtual-charter aid, Medicaid provider-rate increases and limits on gubernatorial emergency renewals (326–63; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s acceleration of interest-and-dividends-tax repeal to 2025 (190–199; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s changes to community-college employees’ retirement-system status (199–187; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against redirecting 32.5 percent of business-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund and shifting specified education appropriations from the general fund (191–197; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against $3 million per year to reduce resident tuition at UNH, Plymouth State and Keene State (128–259; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted for raising initial EFA income eligibility to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines (167–222; failed).

April 6, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted against HB 112, which required 60 days’ notice before accepting an offer to sell restricted rental property and required good-faith consideration of tenant purchase offers, with additional time for financing. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 175–199).

March 9, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against HB 469, which prohibited discrimination against Section 8 voucher tenants in covered rental housing. The House rejected it. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 165–206).

March 9, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against HB 567, which required 60 days’ notice of rent increases in restricted properties and six months’ notice for increases over 15 percent, and allowed affected tenants to end leases with 10 days’ notice. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 166–207).

March 9, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted for HB 117, which made expiration of a lease of at least six months good cause to end a tenancy with 30 days’ notice. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 211–157). Voted for HB 60, which let landlords evict tenants when a lease expires, and against amendments adding tenant protections. House roll calls: Feb. 6, 2025, tenant-protection amendment: voted no (failed 140–217); tenant-protection amendment: voted no (failed 145–212); passage: voted yes (passed 217–139). Voted for amendment 1678h to SB 413, adding expiration of a lease or tenancy lasting at least six months as grounds for eviction after at least 30 days' written notice of nonrenewal. The amendment passed 184–183. His named vote concerned this tenancy provision; the underlying bill addressed PFAS civil actions.

March 9, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted against HB 401, which required 60 days’ notice and additional protections for tenants facing renovation-related evictions or withdrawal of homes from the rental market. It imposed a $10,000 penalty for returning a withdrawn unit to the market within a year. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Mar. 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 154–213).

March 9, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Voted to kill HB 95, which authorized municipal limits on rent increases and longer notice periods for restricted rental properties, with related eviction protections. The motion to kill the bill passed. House roll calls: Feb. 2, 2023, motion to table: voted no (failed 180–186). Feb. 2, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 301–63).

February 2, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability

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Cosponsored HB 1238 in 2022 to bar local zoning prohibitions on workforce housing. The House killed it on March 15, 2022.

January 5, 2022Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted against SB 102, which let municipalities provide property-tax relief for residential rehabilitation and exempt certain renewable-energy and energy-storage systems. Passage passed 208–165 on June 4, 2021.

June 4, 2021Opposes Housing Affordability

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On August 19, 2026, Berry voted to override the veto of HB 1422, removing the three-year new-trial petition limit for felony or class A misdemeanor convictions when petitioners alleged innocence and newly discovered evidence and remained subject to incarceration, sentence terms, or collateral consequences. It required an initial showing before a hearing and counsel for indigent petitioners, preserved the new-trial merits standard, and reactivated victim services on request. The override passed 314–7.

August 19, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to override Governor Ayotte's veto of HB 1565 on August 19, 2026. The final bill created criminal and civil liability for knowingly false child-abuse reports, required an owner's project manager when applying for school building aid for projects of at least $1.5 million, and established provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility after 90 days with a $1 appropriation and authority to request additional funding. The override failed 168–140, below the required two-thirds vote.

August 19, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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On May 14, 2026, Berry voted against killing SB 625, which failed 146–150. He voted Yea on amendment 1955h removing Hepatitis B from required childhood immunizations, passed 157–138, and 1956h terminating DHHS refugee-resettlement contracts and prohibiting state agencies from accepting or spending money from any source for refugee resettlement, passed 155–140. He voted Yea on the amended bill, passed 156–139; it also created a homicide-family information study committee.

May 14, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to defeat SB 603, directing DHHS to transfer existing funds to offset reduced federal SNAP funding, with prior approval for transfers of $100,000 or more. The House rejected it 186–158.

May 7, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill SB 545 on April 23, 2026; the motion passed 182–153. The bill required DHHS, subject to federal approval, to make Medicare Part D low-income prescription subsidies available to residents eligible for the Medicare Savings Program.

April 23, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to defeat SB 543, establishing provisional Medicaid nursing-facility eligibility and reimbursable state payments pending application decisions, a $1 initial appropriation and two program-administration positions. The House rejected it 182–154.

April 23, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to defeat HCR 12, a nonbinding call for New Hampshire's congressional delegation to support Medicare for All, including comprehensive coverage without deductibles and enrollment of Medicaid recipients. The House rejected it 180–151.

March 12, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to defeat HB 1760, repealing Medicaid pharmacy copayment and Granite Advantage and CHIP premium directives and appropriating the amount necessary to replace lost funding. The House rejected it 184–153.

March 12, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to defeat HB 1171, providing a 90-day eviction grace period for residential tenants whose missed rent resulted from an unexpected halt in Social Security payments. The House rejected it 186–155.

March 12, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to pass HB 1797 with amendment 1027h, restricting discretionary SNAP eligibility and work exemptions, expanding eligibility data checks, and requiring residency checks after exclusively out-of-state EBT purchases over 60 days. The House passed it 172–161.

March 11, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Cosponsored the original HB 1706 in 2026. Voted for HB 1706, which repealed the state refugee resettlement program, and against killing or tabling it. House roll calls: March 11, 2026, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted no (failed 158–169); motion to table: voted no (failed 161–170); passage: voted yes (passed 170–164). The Senate killed the bill on April 16, 2026.

March 11, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 1596, a proposal to raise the cigarette and little cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, provide an additional $18 million annual appropriation to the university system, and repeal premiums for children's health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The motion passed 200–157.

February 12, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for amended SB 134, which aligned Granite Advantage work requirements with federal law, required documentary proof and at least quarterly verification, and restricted additional optional exemptions without legislative oversight approval. House roll calls: Jan. 8, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 204–150). On January 8, 2026, voted for SB 134’s majority amendment implementing federally authorized community-engagement and work conditions for Granite Advantage (349–5; passed).

January 8, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill SB 204, a proposal to let school boards expand free school meals to students in households up to 200% of the federal poverty level, with the added meal costs shared equally by the state and district. The Senate version also appropriated $107,000 for administration and $250,000 for district reimbursement and application software. The motion passed 183–161.

January 7, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for SB 34 as amended on January 7, 2026; the House passed it 186–155. The proposal required written parental consent for each new diagnostic billing code under Medicaid to Schools and school medical or dental treatment. It also required annual legislative reports and termination of the program statewide or locally if the relevant government or school adopted a policy contrary to parental control of children's medical services.

January 7, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Cosponsored HB 1195 in 2026 to allow licensed childcare centers by right on commercially zoned land and home-based childcare by right as an accessory residential use. The later adopted version allowed industrial-zone restrictions except for employee-only centers, conversion of unchanged existing buildings, local site-plan review above 30 children and continued state fire, building, water and sewage rules. The later bill became law on July 2, 2026.

January 7, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 665, which required free school meals for children in households at or below 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–158).

January 7, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 651, a proposal to increase the base adequacy aid amount to $7,356.01 per pupil and raise differentiated aid for low-income students, English learners, and special education students. The motion passed 190–155.

January 7, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for amended HB 517 on March 27, 2025. It repealed specified state outreach and marketing duties for the Granite State paid family leave plan. The paid-leave program remained. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 316–32).

March 27, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 703, which prohibited denying or stigmatizing students over unpaid school-meal balances and required state payment of specified meal debts. The proposed amendment removing state debt payments was not the bill killed. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–173).

March 13, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 646, requiring online applications for free and reduced-price school meals and state technical assistance. It included funding for a support position. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 209–165).

March 13, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HB 319, ending mandatory transportation for half-day kindergarten pupils. The House amendment kept the school meal requirement. The House passed it 204–171 on March 13, 2025. Voted to override the governor’s veto on December 17; the override failed 182–173.

March 13, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to table HB 583, directing the state to seek Medicaid-based eligibility checks for free and reduced-price school meals. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, motion to table: voted yes (passed 196–174).

March 6, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HB 71 as amended. It barred public schools and colleges from sheltering people not legally admitted into the United States, with a disaster exception. House roll calls: Feb. 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 211–146); April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 209–162).

February 6, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Cosponsored HB 348 in 2025 to permit up to a 90-day residency requirement for local welfare assistance. On January 8, 2026, supported the amended residency-proof requirement, including discretionary consideration for specified victims and up to 72 hours of emergency aid; passage passed 190–157. The final law removed the waiting period, required acceptable residency proof, preserved eligibility for specified abuse and trafficking victims, and required up to six days of emergency aid. Aid continued during intermunicipal responsibility hearings. The law was signed May 22, 2026.

January 8, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for amended SB 574, authorizing written appointments of temporary caregivers for up to 60 days, with two adult witnesses and limits protecting existing parental and court rights. The House version also changed state policy to support approximately equal parenting time and required courts to explain departures from it. Passage succeeded 352–7.

May 9, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against SB 417's strengthened oversight of children's out-of-home placements on May 2, 2024. It preferred suitable family and community placements, required monthly caseworker contact and court review, and appropriated about $1.61 million. He supported tabling, which failed 180–184, and opposed passage, which passed 191–174.

May 2, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 1199 on April 11, 2024; the motion failed 190–191. He opposed passage, which failed 191–192, and supported indefinite postponement, which passed 192–190. The bill expanded the Office of the Child Advocate's work on homelessness among people age 25 or younger and appropriated $150,000 for an additional staff position, using available federal funds with any remainder from the general fund.

April 11, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against tabling HB 1607 on March 28, 2024, which failed 183–187, and against sending it to interim study, which failed 182–189. He supported sections expanding anonymous safe-haven infant surrender from seven to 61 days and authorizing alarm-equipped infant safety devices at facilities staffed around the clock, passing 372–1. He also supported a separate provision excluding evidence obtained directly from surrender from use against the parent; that provision failed 185–188.

March 28, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HB 94, ending Medicaid coverage for childhood circumcision except for medical necessity. A separate vision screening amendment failed before the vote. House roll calls: March 6, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 184–183). Voted to table HB 1683 on March 21, 2024, passing 188–187. On March 28 he voted to remove it from the table, passing 189–188, and against killing it, which failed 185–188. He supported reconsideration, passing 188–186, and passage of the amended bill, which failed 184–191. The proposal restricted Medicaid coverage of circumcision to specified medical indications, with an additional medical-necessity exception for minors.

March 21, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 23, a resolution calling on the congressional delegation to pursue national universal health insurance through a single-payer system. The motion passed 192–179.

March 14, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted on March 7, 2024 for HB 1660's exclusion of gender-reassignment surgery for people under 18 from state Medicaid coverage; the House passed it 193–169. He also opposed tabling, which failed 174–188.

March 7, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against passage, for killing, and for tabling HB 1212, which expanded free school meals to children in households at or below 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines and used the Education Trust Fund to reimburse districts. House roll calls: Feb. 15, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 187–188); motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–187); passage: voted no (passed 193–175); April 11, 2024, motion to table: voted yes (passed 192–191). On February 15, 2024, voted against reconsidering the vote killing HB 1212’s expanded free-school-meal eligibility (187–181; passed).

February 15, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted on February 8, 2024 for HB 1561, a proposal that expanded Education Freedom Account eligibility without an income limit for nine additional categories, including persistently bullied students, students with specified health or mental-health conditions and students meeting academic or district criteria. Passage failed 185–197; he requested a roll call and voted to reconsider, which also failed 189–192.

February 8, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 601, which used Medicaid records to directly certify eligible children for free or reduced-price school meals without a separate application. House roll calls: Jan. 3, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–188).

January 3, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Cosponsored HB 1056 in 2024 to prioritize childcare scholarship applications by childcare employees, allow ongoing application review and remove reapplication waiting periods. The enacted replacement instead allowed childcare beyond 13 hours when parents worked longer shifts or were deployed by the military during the weekend. The later bill became law on July 3, 2024.

January 3, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against SB 42, which eliminated interest on unemployment-benefit overpayments except those obtained through knowing or willful false statements or nondisclosure, while retaining repayment of the overpaid benefits. The House passed it 196–178. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 196–178).

June 8, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against SB 110, which kept people’s local-welfare residency unchanged during specified hospital, correctional, treatment and provider-paid hotel or motel stays, imposed specified 30-day transition rules after emergency housing, and required municipalities to coordinate assistance and reimbursements. The House passed it 190–180. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 190–180).

June 8, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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On May 18, 2023, moved to table SB 263, a permanent Granite Advantage Medicaid renewal; the motion failed 182–192. Voted yes on 27 failed amendments covering renewal limits, work and drug-testing conditions, federally constrained copays, patient cost estimates, and regulated adult cannabis legalization. Voted no on House passage (193–166; passed and referred to Finance). On January 4, 2024, voted yes to kill the retained permanent-renewal bill (191–183; passed). The separate 2023 budget law renewed Granite Advantage through 2030. His May 18 yes votes on failed amendments were: 1910: 184–192; 1864: 181–199; 1749: 186–193; 1869: 184–195; 1841: 175–199; 1890: 175–194; 1750: 169–192; 1860: 175–194; 1748: 173–195. Additional failed amendment votes were: 1881: 176–193; 1747: 173–194; 1832: 168–193; 1857: 170–191; 1859: 169–196; 1867: 174–190; 1868: 169–190; 1870: 166–194; 1871: 162–191. The remaining failed amendment votes were: 1872: 166–191; 1873: 164–183; 1897: 164–190; 1901: 167–193; 1909: 163–191; 1922: 160–187; 1923: 156–198; 1929: 166–190; 1789: 118–241.

May 18, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against SB 128’s Senate version, which required courts to appoint counsel for involuntary mental-health admission proceedings when a person lacked counsel and paid necessary representation costs from the indigent-defense fund. It passed 207–177. House roll calls: May. 18, 2023, passage: voted no (passed 207–177).

May 18, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted yes on June 8, 2023 to accept HB 2's final 2024–2025 budget policy package (326–53). It accelerated interest and dividends tax repeal to January 1, 2025. It raised base state education aid to $4,100 and additional aid for nonvirtual charter schools to $4,900. Childcare scholarship eligibility rose to 85 percent of state median income. It extended Granite Advantage through 2030. It also funded 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage with a $600,000 appropriation. On April 6, 2023, voted for HB 2 amendment 1336h including $30 million in affordable housing, $4,000 base school aid, $5,000 additional nonvirtual-charter aid, Medicaid provider-rate increases and limits on gubernatorial emergency renewals (326–63; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s acceleration of interest-and-dividends-tax repeal to 2025 (190–199; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s changes to community-college employees’ retirement-system status (199–187; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against redirecting 32.5 percent of business-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund and shifting specified education appropriations from the general fund (191–197; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against $3 million per year to reduce resident tuition at UNH, Plymouth State and Keene State (128–259; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted for raising initial EFA income eligibility to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines (167–222; failed).

April 6, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to kill HB 534, which proposed a nonlapsing fund to assist residents with repair, replacement and treatment of private drinking-water wells after natural disasters, with assistance based on ability to pay and $2.5 million appropriations in each of fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The motion failed 191–196. House roll calls: Apr. 6, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 191–196).

April 6, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against HB 469, which prohibited discrimination against Section 8 voucher tenants in covered rental housing. The House rejected it. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 165–206).

March 9, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HB 464, which made specified groups eligible for Education Freedom Accounts regardless of income, including foster and homeless students, students with disabilities or bullying complaints, and children of military parents. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 192–184).

March 9, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HR 7, which called on the federal government to preserve Medicare and Social Security without benefit cuts. The resolution passed. House roll calls: Feb. 23, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 333–12).

February 23, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against amended HB 565, which extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to 12 months. The House passed it. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 184–179).

February 22, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against HB 574, which restored WIC farmers’ market nutrition benefits for locally grown produce at participating markets and roadside stands and appropriated $300,000. The passage motion failed. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (failed 180–184).

February 22, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against SB 404 as amended, which directed a state SNAP outreach plan and partnerships with nonprofit organizations to reach eligible people, with preference for private and federal funding and possible use of available state funds. Passage passed 226–76 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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On April 21, 2022, voted against SB 401’s then-current version, which provided local highway and bridge aid and funds for police body and dashboard cameras, and authorized DOT fleet cameras. The House passed the bill 241–93. On May 4, 2022, voted for an amendment limiting unemployment benefits to 16 weeks at state unemployment rates of 3 percent or lower. It added one week for each half percentage point above 3 percent, up to 26 weeks above 8 percent. The amendment passed 173–142.

April 21, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against passing HB 1627 as amended to create a Department of Education administrator for education freedom accounts, appropriate $115,000 for the position and seek USDA participation in Medicaid-based direct certification of school meals. Also voted for a separate amendment allowing adults 21 and older limited cannabis possession, transfers without payment and home cultivation of up to six plants, three mature. The cannabis amendment failed; the education bill passed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 161–177 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 152–181 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 76–258 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 204–131 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against the HB 1661 conference report, which set regional career and technical education agreements, appropriated $9.35 million for preliminary garage work and relocating the Department of Justice, removed Medicaid premiums for employed adults with disabilities and older adults with disabilities, funded hospital birthing services, and revised housing-development and land-use approval rules. The report passed. Earlier, he voted against an amendment appropriating $35 million for the garage project. On March 31, 2022, he opposed the amendment; the vote was 271–65 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 244–99 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for amended HB 1337, which tied the maximum duration of unemployment benefits to the state's average unemployment rate: 16 weeks at 3 percent or lower, rising with unemployment to a maximum of 26 weeks. Passage passed 179–153 on March 17, 2022.

March 17, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against HB 103's final conference report establishing dental coverage for Medicaid recipients age 21 and older. It covered preventive, restorative and surgical care, limited removable prosthodontic coverage to specified waiver and nursing-facility populations, capped other benefits at $1,500 annually, and required federally allowed cost sharing above 100 percent of the poverty level while exempting preventive and diagnostic services. On January 6, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 225–127 and the motion passed. On March 16, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 237–100 and the motion passed. On May 26, 2022, he opposed the conference report; the vote was 246–105 and the motion passed.

January 6, 2022Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for the state operating budgets for fiscal years 2022–2023 and 2026–2027, including both final compromise versions. House roll calls: 2021 HB 1: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 205–178); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 208–172). 2025 HB 1: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–183); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 185–180). On April 7, 2021, voted for the majority FY 2022–23 operating-budget amendment (200–178; passed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $1,235,532 in FY 2022 for family-planning contracts (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $220,000 per year for youth tobacco prevention and cessation (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against additional child-care, homeless-youth outreach and home-visiting appropriations (174–207; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $2.92 million in state funds plus federal matching funds for FY 2023 adult Medicaid dental coverage (184–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing a DHHS staffing reduction and funding 22 existing child-protective-service positions (175–208; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 1’s majority FY 2026–27 operating-budget amendment (197–178; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for the first vote on HB 1’s budget conference report (182–183; failed). On June 26, 2025, voted for reconsidering the initial rejection of HB 1’s budget conference report (185–180; passed).

April 7, 2021Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2022–2023 budget policy package. It created Education Freedom Accounts with an initial income limit of 300 percent of the federal poverty level. It banned abortion at or after 24 weeks, except for maternal medical emergencies, and required an ultrasound before abortion. It restricted teaching specified concepts of inherent group superiority or oppression. It also cut business taxes and scheduled repeal of the interest and dividends tax by 2027. House roll calls: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–181); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 198–181). On August 20, 2021, published an op-ed defending his vote for the Education Freedom Account program, citing his own move from public to private school. On April 7, 2021, voted against removing transfers into the FRM victims recovery fund and its prospective-repeal changes (175–203; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against a $10,043,000 DHHS appropriation for agency transformation and efficiency projects (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on DHHS state funds for abortion services (181–199; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $100 million in education-aid adjustments to prevent grants falling below the previous year, subject to the aggregate cap and surplus (174–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $8,096,438 in FY 2022 and $7,480,501 in FY 2023 for DES state-aid grants, with new-infrastructure restrictions retained (186–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against raising the meals-and-rooms operator commission from 3 to 4 percent (176–208; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on expanding DHHS closed-loop referrals pending legislative review (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against requiring local voter approval of historical-racing devices (161–218; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against reconsidering HB 2 passage (175–204; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing creation of the Department of Energy and restoring the prior agency structure (177–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing prohibitions on specified divisive concepts from state contracts, grants and training (186–193; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the changes to gubernatorial emergency powers and nominal financial-emergency provisions (184–194; failed). On April 7, 2021, also voted for the Finance Committee’s budget-policy amendment 1059h to HB 2. The amendment passed 204–178. On April 7, 2021, also voted against amendment 1062h setting the House’s contingent intent to appropriate additional municipal education grants if final revenues exceeded House estimates or supporting federal education funds became available. It listed $45.7 million for fiscal 2022 attendance adjustments and $45 million in each of fiscal 2022 and 2023 for fiscal-disparity and low-income pupil aid. The amendment failed 178–203.

April 7, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted to postpone indefinitely HB 246, which set up court protective orders for vulnerable adults, ending the bill for the session. House roll calls: Feb. 24, 2021, motion to postpone it indefinitely: voted yes (passed 195–158).

February 24, 2021Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for amended HB 498, which required courts to use uniform criteria to determine indigence and pay the bail commissioner’s fee for an indigent defendant who used those services. The House adopted the recommendation 199–156 and referred the bill to Finance on February 24, 2021.

February 24, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for SB 101 amendment 1451h on April 23, 2026; it passed 182–172. It required public-school open-enrollment policies, state-funded transfers and locally set capacity. He opposed the study-only substitute, which failed 169–184, and supported passage of the amended bill, which failed 168–184.

April 23, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1817 as amended on March 11, 2026; the House passed it 179–156. The proposal gave Education Freedom Account students access to resident-district courses and cocurricular programs, including statewide assessments and the PSAT, under participation rules no more restrictive than those for resident public-school students.

March 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against amendment 0995h to HB 1121 on March 11, 2026; it failed 149–187. That amendment added school nurses and superintendent services to the cost of an adequate education and required updates every two years. He then voted for the narrower bill, which passed 187–152 and specified teachers, school administrators, support personnel, instructional supplies, facilities and transportation as the cost elements.

March 11, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for amendments 0887h and 1098h to HB 1268 on March 11, 2026; they passed 178–160 and 181–158. He then voted for the bill, which passed 174–166. The House version removed general home-education recordkeeping and annual evaluations, made declarations optional except for public-school withdrawal or access, repealed the advisory council, protected family information, and required warrants or genuine emergencies for home inspections. The later amendment preserved educational neglect standards while barring neglect findings based solely on participation in home education or Education Freedom Accounts.

March 11, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for amendment 0878h to HB 1155 and for passage as amended on March 11, 2026; the House adopted those motions 183–151 and 180–156. The proposal repealed the Home Education Advisory Council and removed its review of proposed home-education rules.

March 11, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1557 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 184–157. The proposal lowered the special-education cost threshold for state aid from 3.5 to 1.5 times the statewide average expenditure per pupil, increasing the share of exceptional costs paid by the state.

February 19, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1799 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 185–159. The proposal set base education aid at $7,379.56 per pupil for the biennium beginning July 2027, increased differentiated aid, required municipalities to remit statewide education property-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund, and established school achievement plans and a funding commission.

February 19, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1791 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 187–157. The proposal created an inclusive higher-education grant program for students with developmental disabilities at public institutions, required a quarter of grants to fund student scholarships, and appropriated $100,000 for fiscal 2028.

February 19, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1826 on February 19, 2026; the House adopted the motion 192–157. The proposal set base adequacy aid at $4,438 per pupil for the biennium beginning July 2027 and differentiated aid at $2,441 for meal eligibility, $866 for English learners and $3,203 for special education.

February 19, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1716, a proposal to require reporting of Education Freedom Account student attainment to the Department of Education and a departmental rubric for portfolio evaluations by certified teachers. It also required the department to compile proficiency data. The motion passed 194–166.

February 12, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1596, a proposal to raise the cigarette and little cigar tax from $1.78 to $2.80 per 20-pack, provide an additional $18 million annual appropriation to the university system, and repeal premiums for children's health insurance and Granite Advantage coverage. The motion passed 200–157.

February 12, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass HB 1832 as amended, adding New Hampshire resident students with an active-duty military parent or guardian to the Education Freedom Account priority groups, regardless of where that parent or guardian lived or served. It passed 189–164.

February 5, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass HB 121 as amended, strengthening municipal and school audit requirements and authorizing state probation and corrective administration for financially unstable or noncompliant school districts. The amended bill allowed state aid to be withheld for overdue audits after notice and allowed a state-appointed administrator to override district management decisions, reassign staff, and terminate the superintendent or business manager for cause with an appeal. It passed 187–154.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill SB 204, a proposal to let school boards expand free school meals to students in households up to 200% of the federal poverty level, with the added meal costs shared equally by the state and district. The Senate version also appropriated $107,000 for administration and $250,000 for district reimbursement and application software. The motion passed 183–161.

January 7, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 295, a proposal to make appropriations for school building aid nonlapsing preserving unspent funds for later use. The motion passed 191–150.

January 7, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass HB 709 as amended, allowing New Hampshire resident parents to enroll children in districts where they pay property or school district taxes, including the amended rules for separated parents and guardians. The bill retained limits on required district transportation. It passed 182–159.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 665, which required free school meals for children in households at or below 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–158).

January 7, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 651, a proposal to increase the base adequacy aid amount to $7,356.01 per pupil and raise differentiated aid for low-income students, English learners, and special education students. The motion passed 190–155.

January 7, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass HB 131 as amended, revising school bullying and cyberbullying policies to require reporting, parent notices, investigations, protective measures, and disciplinary responses. The amended bill strengthened reporting duties and allowed private suits for gross negligence or willful misconduct in implementing those duties. It passed 190–149.

January 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to agree to Senate changes to HB 768 on June 12, 2025. It authorized district tuition contracts with approved nonpublic schools, including religious schools. This applied when the district lacked a public school for the pupil's grade and found the contract in the pupil's best interest. The bill became Chapter 210 on July 15, 2025. House roll calls: June 12, 2025, agreement with Senate changes: voted yes (passed 192–158).

June 12, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended SB 99, expanding career and technical students’ access to academic courses at receiving high schools. On June 5, 2025, voted for the tuition amendment (208–159; passed). It set tuition at least 80% of the sending district’s per-pupil cost, prorated for part-time credits. Voted for deleting required state funding (203–169; passed), then for passage (206–167; passed). Sending districts remained responsible for transportation and special-education costs. The bill became law on July 15, 2025.

June 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for an amendment and amended passage of SB 210 on June 5, 2025. It replaced a bullying study with reporting rules, parent notices and educator-discipline provisions. The adopted floor amendment required districts to adopt public-school open enrollment, including transfers from outside the district. Transfers faced capacity and specified discipline limits. Sending districts paid at least 80% of their per-pupil cost and retained special-education responsibilities. Neither district had to transport out-of-district students. House roll calls: June 5, 2025, floor amendment: voted yes (passed 193–160); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 193–159).

June 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended SB 295, which removed the Education Freedom Account income limit, set an initial 10,000-student enrollment cap with 25 percent growth when applications reached 90 percent of the cap, and provided priority-group exceptions. House roll calls: May 8, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 188–176); June 5, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 190–178). On May 8, 2025, voted against conditioning SB 295 EFA expansion on a completed performance audit finding adequate management controls (165–199; failed). On June 5, 2025, voted against conditioning SB 295 implementation on a completed audit finding sufficient management controls (167–201; failed). On June 5, 2025, voted against reconsidering SB 295’s June passage (171–198; failed).

May 8, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2026–2027 budget policy package. It required Medicaid prescription copays and household-size premiums, with eligibility income thresholds and hardship protections. The charges remained subject to federal law and required federal approvals. It directed a federal waiver request for Medicaid-expansion work requirements. It banned defined diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public entities and schools, including implicit-bias training and race-based hiring preferences. It also prohibited related contract provisions and required public-school funding halts for violations. It repealed annual vehicle safety inspections. It appropriated $10 million plus available federal matching funds for staffed community-residence room and board. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 185–175); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 184–183). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2’s majority budget-policy amendment 1488h (200–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1529h permitting specified biological-sex classifications and exempting membership or direct-pay intermediate-care and rehabilitation facilities from specified rules, with a separate patient bill of rights (203–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1526h restricting local health regulations to nuisance prevention and removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccine requirements by rule (195–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1560h asserting a federal-commerce exemption for NH-only firearms, allowing adults to carry specified impact weapons and imposing liability for malicious false child-abuse reports or knowing failure to report (203–167; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 2 amendment 1555h requiring twice-yearly legislative reports on Title IV-E funds and compliance with federal program intent (104–268; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing HB 2’s local school tax cap (206–165; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against about $1.84 million per year for family planning, combining state and federal funds (174–196; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against $7 million per year for tourism and about $2.33 million in FY 2027 for welcome centers (198–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, consolidating commercial and land-use court dockets and increasing superior-court associate justices to 24 (183–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against seeking federal approval for Medicaid-based school-meal direct certification, consent-based enrollment and temporary aid-calculation changes (181–182; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before April passage (193–170; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before its final conference vote (185–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a broad alternative package reducing EFA appropriations, removing Medicaid copays/premiums and DEI prohibitions, preserving oversight bodies and restoring selected service funding (166–204; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Office of the Child Advocate with $1,075,549 in FY 2026 and $1,114,238 in FY 2027 (177–190; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against restoring arts appropriations and positions proposed for abolition (177–185; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing the new group III defined-contribution retirement plan (183–177; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and providing fiscal-capacity school aid of up to $1,500 per pupil with a $1 million–$2 million equalized-valuation range (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and appropriating $6.5 million in FY 2026 and $25.5 million in FY 2027 to the university system (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a 35 percent video-lottery tax (173–191; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing expiration of leases longer than six months as an eviction ground (159–205; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving local municipal approval of keno (183–181; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against requiring the Office of Health Equity and vendors to treat everyone with equal dignity and comply with the civil-rights act (116–248; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified opioid-fund appropriations and transfers, repeal of liquor contributions and termination of opioid-funded agreements (169–195; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified environmental and agricultural fee increases, reducing EFA appropriations and revising vehicle fees (165–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Human Rights Commission and positions with state and federal appropriations (161–203; failed).

April 10, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended HB 741, which made public schools open to applications across district lines, required the sending district to pay 80 percent of its average cost per pupil, and left transportation to parents, subject to capacity and specified denial grounds. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 198–174).

March 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 749, which required high schools to teach the nature and history of communism. House roll calls: March 27, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–173). On March 27, 2025, voted against adding a required hour of fascism history alongside HB 749’s communism instruction (162–209; failed).

March 27, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 520 on March 26, 2025. The bill authorized education-department hearing officers to issue subpoenas in educator-conduct investigations and related proceedings. It provided access to collected evidence for both parties and motions to challenge subpoenas. Voted against replacing that authority with an attorney-general process. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, amendment: voted no (failed 154–190); March 26, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 193–155).

March 26, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended HB 68 on March 20, 2025, requiring approval of qualifying resident-district school transfers and written reasons for denials (217–156; passed). On May 22, voted for amended SB 97 (199–165; passed). That version required approval within a student’s resident district based on the requested school’s capacity, while preserving the best-interest test outside the district. Applications were due July 1 except for educational hardship. The same House version became law on August 1, 2025.

March 20, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 235, adding responsibilities to parents and guardians to the state educator ethics and conduct rules. House roll calls: March 20, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 209–164).

March 20, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 703, which prohibited denying or stigmatizing students over unpaid school-meal balances and required state payment of specified meal debts. The proposed amendment removing state debt payments was not the bill killed. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 202–173).

March 13, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 319, ending mandatory transportation for half-day kindergarten pupils. The House amendment kept the school meal requirement. The House passed it 204–171 on March 13, 2025. Voted to override the governor’s veto on December 17; the override failed 182–173.

March 13, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 739, requiring towns to send excess state education property tax collections to the education trust fund. The amended bill delayed the first payment until March 15, 2027. House roll calls: March 13, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 246–128).

March 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 771, clarifying school districts’ payments when students attend an open enrollment school outside their district. It set payment at no less than 80 percent of the sending district’s average cost per pupil. It required separate budget lines for tuition costs and offsetting payments. The House passed it 205–169 on March 6, 2025. Voted for Senate agreement on June 12; it passed 189–160. It became law on July 15, 2025.

March 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 282, doubling the total first responder critical injury benefit fund from $500,000 to $1 million. That motion failed 175–195 on February 20, 2025. Voted against passage on April 10; it passed 296–76. Voted for the broader revised bill on June 26; agreement passed 322–41. It kept the $125,000 individual benefit cap and added school funding and police and firefighter pension changes. The revised bill capped targeted school aid at $3,750 per pupil in districts with at least 5,000 pupils. It phased in higher pension benefits and appropriated $14.5 million initially, then $27.5 million yearly through 2034. It became law on June 27, 2025.

February 20, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1656's three levels of additional special-education aid: $2,642, $5,285, or $7,927 per pupil according to placement category. He opposed amendment 1327h's higher amounts of $3,408, $6,817, or $10,224. The higher-aid amendment failed on a 187–187 tie, and the lower-aid version passed 349–26.

April 11, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1287, which defined evidence-based public-school teaching methods through reproducible studies, excluded surveys and other subjective measurements, and required publication of the studies used. Passage failed 179–193.

March 28, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to table HB 1084, a proposal requiring the education commissioner and deputy commissioner to have an advanced degree, educator certification, and at least five years of public-school teaching or administrative experience. The House tabled it 196–179.

March 28, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted on March 21, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HR 30, a resolution asking the Education Department to consider preparing and distributing climate-change curricula, including human causes, local impacts and possible solutions. The motion passed 191–183.

March 21, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted on March 21, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1650's educator review committee for alternative graduation-credit programs and annual State Board review of their anti-discrimination compliance. The motion passed 192–182.

March 21, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted on March 14, 2024 to indefinitely postpone HB 1311's school-library selection and reconsideration policies, a motion that failed 185–190. He then voted against the bill's protections against removing materials based on protected identities or viewpoints and its requirement to maintain access during review; passage succeeded 194–180. He supported reconsideration, which failed 183–192.

March 14, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted against passage, for killing, and for tabling HB 1212, which expanded free school meals to children in households at or below 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines and used the Education Trust Fund to reimburse districts. House roll calls: Feb. 15, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 187–188); motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–187); passage: voted no (passed 193–175); April 11, 2024, motion to table: voted yes (passed 192–191). On February 15, 2024, voted against reconsidering the vote killing HB 1212’s expanded free-school-meal eligibility (187–181; passed).

February 15, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted on February 15, 2024 for HB 1677, a proposal that expanded Education Freedom Account eligibility to students in districts or schools below 49 percent proficiency on specified statewide assessments, students denied enrollment transfers and prior-year EFA participants. Passage failed 174–192.

February 15, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1665, which raised the initial Education Freedom Account household-income limit from 350 to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines. House roll calls: Feb. 8, 2024, passage: voted yes (passed 190–189). On February 8, 2024, voted against reconsidering HB 1665’s EFA passage (186–192; failed).

February 8, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted on February 8, 2024 for HB 1561, a proposal that expanded Education Freedom Account eligibility without an income limit for nine additional categories, including persistently bullied students, students with specified health or mental-health conditions and students meeting academic or district criteria. Passage failed 185–197; he requested a roll call and voted to reconsider, which also failed 189–192.

February 8, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted on January 3, 2024 against SB 151 adding mental health education to adequate education standards and directing model curriculum and rulemaking, with existing parental curriculum objection rights expressly preserved. Passage failed 183–186; he also opposed reconsideration, which failed 183–187.

January 3, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted on January 3, 2024 for amended HB 354 making chartered public schools eligible for state school building aid equal to 30% of eligible construction costs, paid over 20 years. Eligibility required approved applications and asset disposition plans; it did not guarantee funding. The House passed it 190–177.

January 3, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted on January 3, 2024 to kill HB 546, a proposal that required at least $50 million per fiscal year for school building aid in addition to debt-service payments. The motion failed 186–189; he then voted to table the bill, which passed 190–187. On March 28, he voted against passage; the House passed it 182–178.

January 3, 2024Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted against the House version of SB 213, which excluded career-development platforms from the school social-media-account definition and allowed career-exploration and technical-education students to register for approved-program technology services requiring personal information with written parental consent retained in the education record. It passed 201–175. House roll calls: Jun. 8, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 201–175).

June 8, 2023Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for SB 77, which added approved private schools to placements permitted under local policies on manifest educational hardship, with a superintendent’s recommendation. The House passed it 187–183. House roll calls: May. 4, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 187–183).

May 4, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted yes on June 8, 2023 to accept HB 2's final 2024–2025 budget policy package (326–53). It accelerated interest and dividends tax repeal to January 1, 2025. It raised base state education aid to $4,100 and additional aid for nonvirtual charter schools to $4,900. Childcare scholarship eligibility rose to 85 percent of state median income. It extended Granite Advantage through 2030. It also funded 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage with a $600,000 appropriation. On April 6, 2023, voted for HB 2 amendment 1336h including $30 million in affordable housing, $4,000 base school aid, $5,000 additional nonvirtual-charter aid, Medicaid provider-rate increases and limits on gubernatorial emergency renewals (326–63; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s acceleration of interest-and-dividends-tax repeal to 2025 (190–199; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against removing HB 2’s changes to community-college employees’ retirement-system status (199–187; passed). On April 6, 2023, voted against redirecting 32.5 percent of business-tax revenue to the Education Trust Fund and shifting specified education appropriations from the general fund (191–197; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted against $3 million per year to reduce resident tuition at UNH, Plymouth State and Keene State (128–259; failed). On April 6, 2023, voted for raising initial EFA income eligibility to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines (167–222; failed).

April 6, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1634, which made every New Hampshire student eligible for Education Freedom Accounts. House roll calls: Feb. 8, 2024, passage: voted yes (failed 186–194). On February 8, 2024, voted for reconsidering the vote killing HB 1634’s universal EFA eligibility (188–193; failed). Voted against tabling HB 331, which removed the family-income limit for education freedom accounts. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 277–103).

March 22, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 324 and to override its veto. It removed K–12 education’s exemption from obscenity laws, required a school-material complaint process, and allowed civil enforcement when schools violated that process or a final removal decision. House roll calls: March 26, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 183–148); Dec. 17, 2025, veto override: voted yes (failed 183–167). Voted to pass SB 33 as amended, requiring local school boards to adopt policies and a parent complaint and appeal process for school materials considered harmful to minors, age-inappropriate, or otherwise inappropriate. The amended bill supplied criteria for harmful material and limited the obscenity-law educational justification to higher education. It passed 181–157. Voted for SB 434's public-school policies and parental complaint procedures concerning obscene or otherwise inappropriate materials on May 14, 2026. Passage with amendment 1937h passed 188–161. On August 19, he supported overriding the veto; the motion failed 165–140 and the veto stood. Voted against tabling HB 514, which removed K–12 education from specified obscenity-law protections and required school procedures for parental complaints about allegedly harmful material. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 16, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 200–175).

March 16, 2023Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended HB 367, which raised the initial Education Freedom Account income limit from 300 to 350 percent of the federal poverty level without a subsequent income test. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 187–184).

March 9, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 464, which made specified groups eligible for Education Freedom Accounts regardless of income, including foster and homeless students, students with disabilities or bullying complaints, and children of military parents. House roll calls: March 9, 2023, passage: voted yes (passed 192–184).

March 9, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against HB 620 creating an early-learning division in the Department of Education and a three-year public pre-kindergarten pilot program, then voted to kill the retained bill. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage as amended: voted no (passed 183–174). Jan. 3, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 188–185).

February 14, 2023Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted against passage and for killing HB 430, which limited new Education Freedom Account applications to students with a year in public school or entering kindergarten or first grade. Also voted against tabling it; the House tabled it and later killed it. House roll calls: Feb. 14, 2023, passage: voted no (failed 185–185); motion to table: voted no (passed 186–183); Feb. 23, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (failed 170–175); April 6, 2023, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 194–192).

February 14, 2023Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 112’s civics graduation requirement for public college students. It offered a naturalization test, a civics course, or a competency test, with exemptions. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 192–158); March 26, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 191–157). Voted to override the veto of HB 319, which required students entering or transferring into the state university and community-college systems from January 2023 to pass the 128-question 2020 USCIS civics test before graduation, with exemptions for exchange students and foreign nationals. The veto override failed 143–181 on September 15, 2022.

September 15, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass SB 381 as amended to establish and fund an independent special-education advocate with $500,000. The office was authorized to investigate complaints and inspect education records, help families with IEPs and 504 plans, require documents five days before meetings and oversee confidential family feedback. The bill also removed education references from the child advocate’s duties and record-access law. Passage passed 170–155 on May 4, 2022.

May 4, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for SB 420’s amended committee report providing extraordinary-need school grants based on municipal property wealth per pupil eligible for free or reduced-price meals, with accountability plans and annual progress reports. Grants started at $650 per eligible pupil for valuations of $1 million or less, tapered below $6 million, and stopped at $6 million. It also split additional special-education aid into $2,037.11 and $3,367.08 per pupil according to disability category and revised the fiscal 2023 low-income pupil calculation. The House adopted the report 261–71 on April 21, 2022 and referred the bill to Finance. On May 4, 2022, voted for amendment 1925h to SB 420, which increased the household-income eligibility ceiling for the education tax-credit scholarship program from 300 to 500 percent of federal poverty guidelines. The amendment passed 171–150.

April 21, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against passing HB 1627 as amended to create a Department of Education administrator for education freedom accounts, appropriate $115,000 for the position and seek USDA participation in Medicaid-based direct certification of school meals. Also voted for a separate amendment allowing adults 21 and older limited cannabis possession, transfers without payment and home cultivation of up to six plants, three mature. The cannabis amendment failed; the education bill passed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 161–177 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported tabling; the vote was 152–181 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he supported the floor amendment; the vote was 76–258 and the motion failed. On March 31, 2022, he opposed passage as amended; the vote was 204–131 and the motion passed.

March 31, 2022Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1434's House version requiring school districts and charter-school trustees to make requested curriculum materials available within 10 business days to parents, guardians or district residents, with a practicability qualification for school districts. Passage passed 185–152 on March 16, 2022.

March 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1683, which repealed the Education Freedom Account program. House roll calls: March 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 189–166).

March 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1298, which increased the household-income limit for education tax-credit scholarships from 300% to 500% of the federal poverty guidelines. Passage passed 159–152 on March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1120, which added requirements for providers paid from education freedom accounts, including one year of operation, approval as a nonpublic school program for providers teaching students, health and safety compliance, and criminal-record checks for employees with direct student contact. The motion passed 165–155 on March 15, 2022.

March 15, 2022Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1657, a $600,000 farm-to-school reimbursement proposal covering 33.3% of qualifying New Hampshire food purchases and 16.6% of purchases from other New England farms, capped at $1,200 per school each year. The motion passed 186–164 on February 16, 2022.

February 16, 2022Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted to kill HB 1516, which prohibited using local taxpayer funds for Education Freedom Accounts. House roll calls: Feb. 16, 2022, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 181–174).

February 16, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted against tabling HB 607 while a replacement amendment proposed local education freedom accounts. The proposal authorized districts to adopt the program by a three-fifths vote, using 80 percent of local per-pupil funds excluding special education, without a family income cap. The motion passed 187–170 on January 6, 2022. Voted against tabling HB 538, which established local education freedom accounts in districts approving the program by a three-fifths vote, without an income cap. The table motion passed. House roll calls: Mar. 22, 2023, motion to table: voted no (passed 296–83). Voted on February 15, 2024 against the motion to kill HB 1652, a proposal that allowed school districts to establish local Education Freedom Accounts through a three-fifths vote. District-funded grants were set in the proposal at twice base state adequacy aid plus applicable differentiated aid, without a household-income limit. The motion passed 194–179.

January 6, 2022Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for the June 3 House version of SB 147, which omitted a proposed FAFSA graduation requirement, added teacher child-abuse registry checks and allowed special-education cost pools and emergency aid. On June 3, 2021, he supported amendment 1635h; the vote was 204–172 and the motion passed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed alternative amendment 1588h; the vote was 177–198 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he opposed coach-bus amendment 1860h; the vote was 166–207 and the motion failed. On June 3, 2021, he supported passage as amended; the vote was 203–172 and the motion passed.

June 3, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2022–2023 budget policy package. It created Education Freedom Accounts with an initial income limit of 300 percent of the federal poverty level. It banned abortion at or after 24 weeks, except for maternal medical emergencies, and required an ultrasound before abortion. It restricted teaching specified concepts of inherent group superiority or oppression. It also cut business taxes and scheduled repeal of the interest and dividends tax by 2027. House roll calls: April 7, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 200–181); June 24, 2021, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 198–181). On August 20, 2021, published an op-ed defending his vote for the Education Freedom Account program, citing his own move from public to private school. On April 7, 2021, voted against removing transfers into the FRM victims recovery fund and its prospective-repeal changes (175–203; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against a $10,043,000 DHHS appropriation for agency transformation and efficiency projects (175–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on DHHS state funds for abortion services (181–199; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $100 million in education-aid adjustments to prevent grants falling below the previous year, subject to the aggregate cap and surplus (174–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against $8,096,438 in FY 2022 and $7,480,501 in FY 2023 for DES state-aid grants, with new-infrastructure restrictions retained (186–197; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against raising the meals-and-rooms operator commission from 3 to 4 percent (176–208; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the restriction on expanding DHHS closed-loop referrals pending legislative review (180–201; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against requiring local voter approval of historical-racing devices (161–218; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against reconsidering HB 2 passage (175–204; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing creation of the Department of Energy and restoring the prior agency structure (177–206; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing prohibitions on specified divisive concepts from state contracts, grants and training (186–193; failed). On April 7, 2021, voted against removing the changes to gubernatorial emergency powers and nominal financial-emergency provisions (184–194; failed). On April 7, 2021, also voted for the Finance Committee’s budget-policy amendment 1059h to HB 2. The amendment passed 204–178. On April 7, 2021, also voted against amendment 1062h setting the House’s contingent intent to appropriate additional municipal education grants if final revenues exceeded House estimates or supporting federal education funds became available. It listed $45.7 million for fiscal 2022 attendance adjustments and $45 million in each of fiscal 2022 and 2023 for fiscal-disparity and low-income pupil aid. The amendment failed 178–203.

April 7, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for amended HB 320, which required high school students to score at least 70 percent on a 128-question naturalization civics test to graduate. House roll calls: Feb. 25, 2021, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 208–141).

February 25, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted to pass amended HB 194, which permitted the Department of Education to collect student addresses and testing entities to send assessment results to parents, guardians or schools. It retained student names and identifiers to measure growth and required destruction of student data after eight years. The House passed the bill 193–152 on February 25, 2021.

February 25, 2021Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for HB 1697, which exempted firearms made and kept in New Hampshire from federal regulation. House roll calls: Feb. 5, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 188–164).

February 5, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for HB 1793, which barred public colleges and universities from regulating the carrying of firearms. House roll calls: Feb. 5, 2026, passage: voted yes (passed 188–165). On May 14, 2026, Berry voted Yea on amendment 1929h to SB 408, prohibiting public colleges and universities from restricting lawful firearms or nonlethal weapons on campus, barring campus permits, and authorizing lawsuits with at least $10,000 damages. The amendment failed 159–177.

February 5, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for HB 609, which reserved regulation of firearms, knives, and other self-defense weapons to the Legislature, and against tabling its final version. House roll calls: Jan. 7, 2026, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 193–151); June 4, 2026, motion to table: voted no (passed 182–160). On January 7, 2026, voted for HB 609’s amendment nullifying unauthorized local firearm and self-defense-tool rules and providing a superior-court action using RSA 91-A remedies (193–152; passed).

January 7, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to accept the Senate version of HB 551. It repealed handgun dealer licenses and limited firearm design-feature lawsuits. House roll calls: May 22, 2025, agreeing to Senate changes: voted yes (passed 200–161). Voted to table HB 1387 on March 5, 2026; the House adopted the motion 189–159. The proposal repealed the statutory limit on liability for certain firearm design features.

May 22, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for HB 2 and its final 2026–2027 budget policy package. It required Medicaid prescription copays and household-size premiums, with eligibility income thresholds and hardship protections. The charges remained subject to federal law and required federal approvals. It directed a federal waiver request for Medicaid-expansion work requirements. It banned defined diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in public entities and schools, including implicit-bias training and race-based hiring preferences. It also prohibited related contract provisions and required public-school funding halts for violations. It repealed annual vehicle safety inspections. It appropriated $10 million plus available federal matching funds for staffed community-residence room and board. House roll calls: April 10, 2025, passage as amended: voted yes (passed 185–175); June 26, 2025, final compromise version: voted yes (passed 184–183). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2’s majority budget-policy amendment 1488h (200–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1529h permitting specified biological-sex classifications and exempting membership or direct-pay intermediate-care and rehabilitation facilities from specified rules, with a separate patient bill of rights (203–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1526h restricting local health regulations to nuisance prevention and removing DHHS authority to add childhood vaccine requirements by rule (195–175; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted for HB 2 amendment 1560h asserting a federal-commerce exemption for NH-only firearms, allowing adults to carry specified impact weapons and imposing liability for malicious false child-abuse reports or knowing failure to report (203–167; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against HB 2 amendment 1555h requiring twice-yearly legislative reports on Title IV-E funds and compliance with federal program intent (104–268; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing HB 2’s local school tax cap (206–165; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against about $1.84 million per year for family planning, combining state and federal funds (174–196; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against $7 million per year for tourism and about $2.33 million in FY 2027 for welcome centers (198–169; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Board of Tax and Land Appeals, consolidating commercial and land-use court dockets and increasing superior-court associate justices to 24 (183–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against seeking federal approval for Medicaid-based school-meal direct certification, consent-based enrollment and temporary aid-calculation changes (181–182; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before April passage (193–170; passed). On June 26, 2025, voted for removing HB 2 from the table before its final conference vote (185–180; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a broad alternative package reducing EFA appropriations, removing Medicaid copays/premiums and DEI prohibitions, preserving oversight bodies and restoring selected service funding (166–204; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Office of the Child Advocate with $1,075,549 in FY 2026 and $1,114,238 in FY 2027 (177–190; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against restoring arts appropriations and positions proposed for abolition (177–185; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing the new group III defined-contribution retirement plan (183–177; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and providing fiscal-capacity school aid of up to $1,500 per pupil with a $1 million–$2 million equalized-valuation range (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing EFA eligibility expansion and appropriating $6.5 million in FY 2026 and $25.5 million in FY 2027 to the university system (166–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against a 35 percent video-lottery tax (173–191; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing expiration of leases longer than six months as an eviction ground (159–205; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving local municipal approval of keno (183–181; passed). On April 10, 2025, voted against requiring the Office of Health Equity and vendors to treat everyone with equal dignity and comply with the civil-rights act (116–248; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified opioid-fund appropriations and transfers, repeal of liquor contributions and termination of opioid-funded agreements (169–195; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against removing specified environmental and agricultural fee increases, reducing EFA appropriations and revising vehicle fees (165–198; failed). On April 10, 2025, voted against preserving the Human Rights Commission and positions with state and federal appropriations (161–203; failed).

April 10, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for HB 381, which exempted firearms and accessories made for in-state use from the National Firearms Act. House roll calls: Feb. 20, 2025, passage: voted yes (passed 205–168).

February 20, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted to kill HB 56, which required licensed-dealer background checks for most private firearm transfers and a minimum 72-hour wait before delivery. House roll calls: Feb. 20, 2025, motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 216–154).

February 20, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted on March 21, 2024 for HB 1336's amendment protecting lawful firearm storage in locked vehicles out of view at employers receiving public funds. It also barred all employers from demanding disclosure or searching vehicles except through lawful police searches and gave employers qualified civil immunity. The amendment passed 201–172; final House passage used an unnamed division vote.

March 21, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against HB 1050, which let people voluntarily sign up to block themselves from buying firearms, and for killing it. House roll calls: Feb. 22, 2024, passage: voted no (failed 179–200); motion to kill the bill: voted yes (passed 205–175).

February 22, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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Voted against killing HB 512, which exempted firearms made in New Hampshire from federal gun laws. House roll calls: Jan. 4, 2024, motion to kill the bill: voted no (passed 286–69).

January 4, 2024Opposes Gun Control

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